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TIL the earliest known worked wooden implement is a spear approximately 400,000 years old found in Clacton-on-Sea, England

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0wpON TIL the September 11 terror attacks on the WTC released a dust cloud of toxic asbestos fibers across Manhattan, with an estimated 410,000 people exposed. It is believed lung cancer and mesothelioma cases in the city will reach a peak in the year 2041 (four decades after 9/11)
6rd7 TIL When an English police officer was stabbed he remarked “A scene from the film Hot Fuzz kept rolling through my mind. It was where policeman Simon Pegg gets stabbed and he says ‘It’s the most painful thing I’ve ever experienced.’- It literally is the most painful thing I’ve ever experienced.”
XE6xj TIL The space shuttle Enterprise was originally planned to be named Constitution and unveiled on Constitution Day, September 17, 1976, but Star Trek fans convinced President Gerald Ford to name it the Enterprise.
R5maQ TIL In 532 AD, the Nika Riots erupted in Constantinople after members of rival chariot racing teams—the Blues and the Greens—were executed. “Nika,” or “victory,” was their rallying cry. Fans united against Emperor Justinian. The revolt was crushed, leaving 30,000 dead and half the city in ruins.
kOKK5 TIL that there is a town in Pennsylvania called King of Prussia which is named after a tavern which is named after King Frederick the Great of Prussia.