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TIL we estimate humans began wearing clothes 70,000 years ago because that's when head lice diverged genetically from body lice.

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PYkWg TIL Nan Madol, “Ghost City of the Pacific”, megalithic basalt stone structures weighing 800,000 tons, standing 25 feet high and 17 feet thick covering 200 acres built on the coral reef 1,000 years ago in Pohnpei, Micronesia.
5xMp TIL that Spiral stairs in medieval times were typically wound in a clockwise direction, to place attacking swordsmen (who were most often right-handed) at a disadvantage.
ADEgd TIL there's an American attorney who has been under house arrest for a year because of a contempt of court charge for failing to turn over his personal electronics to Chevron. The maximum sentence for his crime is six months.
R5V4 TIL that North Koreans who defect to South Korea get $10,000 to $28,000 “start up money.
16le7 TIL Bowie was so doing so much coke in the mid-70s he had absolutely no memory of recording his "Station to Station" album