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TIL Humans evolved not as predators but as prey.

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Qrje TIL the word evolution does not appear once in Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species’ (1859). Instead he uses the word 'transmutation’.
JYbkm TIL of a failed 1996 space rocket launch that flew directly into a village and China tried to cover up
4kD4b TIL that there is an international standard for making tea. It's not for making the best tea or how tea should be made, but simply to make a cup of tea that can easily be reproduced by anybody with the right equipment at any time.
xyX1 TIL part of Spetznaz training involves being put in a prison uniform tasked with crossing Moscow in 24 hours, while an APB is put out on you. Police may use lethal force.
4kDyR TIL 50 Cent & G-Unit were bottled like crazy and booed off stage @ the 2004 UK Reading Festival