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TIL the earliest recorded murder occurred 430,000 years ago. The murder victim suffered two penetrating fractures on the forehead's left side and was found at the bottom of a 43-foot (13-meter) shaft

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5YrOk TIL An elderly man in China tried to buy a train ticket using currency not in circulation since 1949. He wanted to pay for a train ticket costing 12.5 yuan with a 500 yuan banknote and was informed his 1943 note is no longer legal tender. They are now worth over $100
ZvYY TIL that on the 1995 VHS release of “The Santa Clause” Tim Allen makes a joke about a phone sex hotline. This line was removed from the movie after a child racked up a $400 phone bill.
yQRxJ TIL that the Finnish Civil War of 1918 was the deadliest civil conflict in the world in relation to the population until the Rwandan Genocide of 1994
6p7W TIL Hydrogen bombs usually do not contain hydrogen because it is difficult to store. They instead use lithium that is split into hydrogen by an atomic bomb. It worked so well that the first bomb went off with 3 times the expected yield, set the world record, and still holds the US record for yield.
JGWV TIL a scientist found two snowflakes identical.