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TIL scientists uncovered “obelisks,” strange RNA entities hiding in 50% of human saliva, widespread yet undetected until 2024. These rod-shaped structures produce unknown proteins, survive 300+ days in humans, and defy life’s classifications. Their origins and purpose remain a mystery.

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kJZxW TIL The first soldier buried in Arlington National cemetery was 19 year old Pvt William Christman who died of disease may 11th 1864, his brother also died in the war in 1862.
ZpmN4 TIL that in the 19th century, staged wrestling emerged in circuses and carnivals, appearing as real contests. The Gold Dust Trio (Toots Mondt, Ed Lewis, Billy Sandow) in the 1920s transformed wrestling, with predetermined outcomes and storylines, paving the way for companies like the WWE today.
ANJlo TIL scientific estimates of human population that Earth can support indefinitely range from 2 billion to 1 trillion
P1pbG TIL - Spanish archeologist Eliseo Gil Zubillaga in 2006 anounce the discovery of inscriptions on some pieces from the III-V century, in which you could see figures of daily life, a cross of Christ, mythological characters, hieroglyphics and texts in Latin, Greek and Basque wich resulted to be fake.
9wWJB TIL Theologian and paleontology pioneer William Buckland conducted the first ever reconstructions of prehistoric food chains by studying fossilised feces. Through observation alone he figured out the diet habits and anatomy of species like the ichthyosaur