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TIL the Rio Negro Bridge is the only major bridge across the Amazon or any tributary in the Amazon

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loGW5 TIL that one of the reasons the Piltdown Man hoax, the supposed missing link between ape and man found in Britain, fooled so many was because many European scientists, especially Britons, wanted to believe that the earliest humans came from Europe and not from Africa due to their prejudices.
RRK4 TIL the king of Thailand used to give “White elephant gifts” to obnoxious courtiers. The recipient would be ruined by the present because they had to care for the animal.
Y78VA TIL that the first historical mosque in the world (built by Muhammad himself) was torn down and replaced by the Saudi government in 1984.
yQEXV TIL laminated safety glass was invented by chemist Édouard Bénédictus after a lab accident in 1903. A glass flask coated with the plastic cellulose nitrate was dropped, shattering but not breaking into pieces. In 1909 he filed a patent, after hearing of a car accident causing injury by glass debris.
5VlZD TIL that frozen pierogis can’t be cooked in the microwave just on their own, and that’s why my stomach is upset.