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

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l7lMA TIL a grieving mother from India had twins through surrogacy using her dead son's semen.
ANJ1n TIL In 1869 Cyrus Teed claimed to have been visited by a spirit telling him he was the Messiah after shocking himself. He then took on the name "Koresh" and created a religious commune for followers of "Koreshanity" in a small Florida town which was supposed to become "new Jerusalem".
pveb TIL that Neil Armstrong’s NASA application was a week late. If it weren’t for his friend, Dick Day, secretly slipping it into the pile, he would have been rejected.
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KOXvE TIL that the Mythbusters once tested a combination of common materials that made an extremely powerful explosive. They deleted the tapes and swore to never release the information, then contacted DARPA and warned them about the possibility of misuse from the combination.