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TIL The Japanese are descendants of ancient Koreans

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W7D8B TIL Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics used a picture of a boat with its sails down to signify traveling north, because to travel north, they used the current and oars. A picture of a boat with its sails up signified traveling south.
WkegN TIL: about The Axis of Evil, an anomaly in astronomical observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background that gives the location of Earth a greater significance than expected by chance. It appears to suggest that our solar system is the center of the entire universe.
6VXl TIL that not until after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy that it was a Federal Crime to murder the President of the United States
v8GD TIL that a Swedish man survived for two months in a car that had been snowed over. He ate only snow, and survived due a “igloo effect”.
PYvJJ TIL that in 1670, against a judge's instructions, a jury refused to find two men guilty. The judge held the jury in contempt; locked them up overnight without food, water or heat; and fined them. On appeal, the Chief Justice ruled that a jury could not be punished for returning the wrong verdict.