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TIL about the us support for 1965 indonesia massacre

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wLZG6 TIL The reason why we view neanderthals as hunched over and degenerate is that the first skeleton to be found was arthritic.
oBPLL TIL the word "literally" has been used figuratively for hundreds of years. Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Austen, and Mark Twain all used it for hyperbole.
kORgW TIL that in 1969, at the height of the Cold War, the Apollo 11 crew carried commemorative medals to the moon to honor two Soviet cosmonauts who died as part of the USSR's human spaceflight program
M7GyV TIL that in 1861 the first Kansas state legislature gave women the right to vote in school elections.
lo1r TIL that Toshiba has made a micro nuclear reactor designed for smaller-scale applications like powering a single neighborhood