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TIL thermal and night vision sniper scopes are illegal in California

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x68wB TIL Girolamo Segato was an Italian archeologist who invented a technique to artificially petrify, or mineralize, human corpses. He destroyed all his notes before his death and his technique has never been replicated.
gr1MX Today I learned many of the most popular pop songs, from the last 50 years use the same four cords.
wLbw7 TIL that ancient Greek sculptures and buildings including the Parthenon were likely painted bright colors. It's only the effect of weather over 2000+ years that has bleached everything white.
kJxy1 TIL that the last documented human sacrifice by Mapuche indians happened in 1960, after an earthquake and tsunami. A five-year-old had his legs and arms amputed, stuck into the sand like a stake and his body carried by the ocean. A Chilean judge left them free based on "ancient tradition"
l4vK TIL Muhammad Ali was stripped of his heavyweight title, had his passport revoked and faced a five-year prison term for refusing to serve in the U.S. Armed Services at the height of the Vietnam War. “I ain’t got no quarrel with those Vietcong,” he said. “They never called me n****r.”