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TIL about nutting stones, unusually shaped rocks with shallow dimples used by primitive people to crack hard shelled nuts like walnuts or hickory nuts.

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R5jDw TIL The Thalweg principle is the legal principle that if the boundary between two political entities is stated to be a waterway without further description (e.g. right bank, eastern shore, low-tide line, etc.), the boundary follows the thalweg, the line of lowest elevation, of that watercourse.
GQv5 TIL that Romans did not have a thumbs down for gladiators. However, they did have a thumbs up, which symbolized the death of the gladiator.
oB1x8 TIL there's enough iron in the Earth to construct 2 Million Death Stars.
vDJD TIL that Saddam Hussein wrote several novels, including a romance novel that was later turned into a 20-part television series and a musical
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