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TIL the oldest cave paintings in the world are in the Chauvet-Pont d’Arc, France. Scientists originally thought they were 20,000 years old, but discovered they were 35,000 years old after further inspection

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rNeLx TIL on 4/20/1989, 37-yr old Patricia Bernadette Meehan of Pittsburgh, PA disappeared after a high speed car accident outside the town of Circle, MT. Unusually, over 5000 alleged sightings of Meehan have since been recorded. The case remains open.
WkwV9 TIL China used more cement in three years — between 2011 and 2013 — than the US did in the entire 20th century.
j4bE TIL that street dogs in Moscow have learnt to take the trains from the suburbs into the city for food during the day, then return to the safer, more comfortable suburbs to sleep at night
mxgdo TIL that since the beginning of time no two deck of cards have been in the same order after randomly shuffling them.
jVnQ TIL that when the New York Sun was relaunched in 2002, its first edition carried the solution to the last crossword puzzle that the earlier Sun published before it folded in 1950.