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TIL A 700,000-Year-Old Stone Tools Point to Mysterious Human Relative Someone butchered a rhinoceros in the Philippines hundreds of thousands of years before modern humans arrived—but who?

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ADK6a TIL the plague that wiped out 50% of 14th Century Europe was never really eradicated. There is an average of 7 cases of plague every year in the US. The disease usually spreads through flea bites or by eating tainted meat. It usually hits the rural west of the US. (2:04)
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