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TIL forensic scientists reconstructed what Jesus the historical figure probably would have looked like (spoiler: not white)

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oR1VW TIL the earliest known human name belonged to an accountant in Sumer called Kushim. Kushim also made the first recorded math error in human history
WlNB TIL that Marvel actually argued that the X-Men mutants are NOT human, in order to lower taxes of action figures
OdrL TIL physicists have experimentally achieved temperatures below absolute zero. Using supercooled potassium gas and a system of lasers and magnetic fields to precisely manipulate the potassium atoms, physicists successfully “cooled” the gas to a few billionths of a degree below absolute zero.
KNEa TIL The top of the Eiffel Tower leans away from the sun, as the metal facing the sun heats up and expands. It can move as much as 18cm.
loP91 TIL that on November 21st 1964 the FBI sent a package to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and in it was a letter that instructed him to commit suicide.