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TIL that Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon of Akkad, is the earliest named author in history

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JYlj8 TIL the singer of the peanut butter jelly time song was brother in law to Snoop Dogg and died in an 11 hour stand off with the police.
45l6 TIL the Holodomor Genocide was a man made famine that killed millions in Soviet Ukraine from 1932-1933.
yQPop TIL that the jeweled cockroach wasp injects a venom into a cockroache’s brain to make it lose its escape reflex, the roach then willingly follows the wasp to its nest, where the wasp lays an egg onto the roaches chest that will subsequently eat the weak-willed roach alive until a new wasp hatches.
E8E0 TIL that it actually does rain more over the weekend because heat and pollution from midweek work traffic prevents moisture from forming, but on weekends when there is no traffic it rains.
EG6W TIL Dinosaurs were neither warm nor cold-blooded, instead “mesothermic” or in between