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TIL There is a theory that Homo erectus could have never evolved without cooking. I.e. that cooking is what made us human.

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4knGN TIL, According to legend, a round of Golf has 18 holes because there are 18 shots in a fifth of alcohol
x6yyb TIL that Operation Barbarossa was named after Frederick Barbarossa, the first emperor of the HRE who wished to establish German predominance in Europe.
6vPY TIL that IBM’s Watson computer has 90 processors, 2,880 cores, 11,200 threads, 16 terabytes of RAM and 4TB worth of data on its hard drive.
awW80 TIL Facebook had graphic sexual murals in their first SV office. The artist David Choe was paid in stocks
b9Ayp TIL of Hugh Clowers Thompson Jr. - a United States Army Major, and a former warrant officer in the 123rd Aviation Battalion of the 23rd Infantry Division, who's been credited with ending one of the United States' greatest war crimes- the Mỹ Lai Massacre, in Sơn Mỹ, Vietnam