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TIL dice predate recorded history

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XjKr TIL of the Gulabi Gang, a group of several thousand women in India. They fight against child marriage, dowery, dowery beatings, and other social injustices, regardless of gender or caste differences.
9mEX TIL that babies born in international waters have their birth place listed as “AT SEA.” Those born in the air where no country claims sovereignty are listed as “IN THE AIR”
e0Mvg TIL The minimum sound threshold a human ear drum can detect is 1x10^-12 watts/square meter. To put in perspective just how sensitive the human ear is we could scale up, so in order to detect a minimum of 1 newton (0.2 pounds) of force, an ear drum would be roughly the entire surface area of England.
5g6D TIL The Soviets would not only kill political enemies, but would also alter photos containing them, as if to erase them from history.
E1wlV TIL a newspaper in Nuremberg in 1561 described an April 14 one-hour-long dawn battle between red and black balls and rods and crosses in the sky.