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TIL an amateur archaeologist discovered European cave paintings used a proto-writing system meant to convey the gestation period of the various animals they painted by using dots to indicate the lunar cycle.

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W7ynd TIL "Heizölrückstoßabdämpfung" is the longest german word without any repeating letters. 24 in total.
VMbek TIL that during his military service in India, Sir Richard Francis Burton kept a menagerie of monkeys in an attempt to learn their language; his wife later claimed that he could speak over 60 words of Monkey
j4ep TIL in Kyoto, Japan there are five temples that have blood-stained ceilings. They use the floorboards from a castle where warriors killed themselves after holding off against an army for eleven days. You can still see footprints and outlines to this day.
j6PrE TIL under rare circumstances, it is possible for human sperm to travel up the fallopian tube, through the ovarian tissue, and penetrate the wall of an intact ovarian follicle to reach the ovum and fertilize the egg before ovulation occurs
aEjL TIL that a United States Senator once interrupted a NATO debate on nuclear weapons to complain about a tariff on chickens.