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TIL Stone-age people were making porridge 32,000 years ago

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oRMZr TIL of Sumanto, a cannibal who dug up corpses of recently dead people then ate them as part of a black magic ritual to make himself "invulnerable".
N7nZ8 TIL William the Silent's second wife had an affair with the father of famous Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens.
oRRWE TIL aestivation is a state of animal dormancy, like hibernation, although taking place in the summer not the winter
m1Dnx TIL The reason why we view Neanderthals as hunched over and degenerate is that the first skeleton to be found was arthritic.
epeab TIL Isaac M. Singer started work as an actor, later turned machinist (lathe operator) to support himself since acting wasn't a stable income, by chance came across an early sewing machine and thought he could improve it. He could, and eventually he founded the Singer Sewing Machine Company.