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TIL: The Oldest Grocery Store in the Americas is in Quebec City

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a8A4M TIL Villagers in Tana Toraja (Indonesia) place dead babies inside hollows of living trees where their bodies are gradually absorbed over the years.
6EmDZ TIL that Ishi is known as the “last wild Indian” in America. He lived most of his life outside modern culture after his tribe, the Yahi (of the Yana group) became extinct in the late 1800s because of the California Gold Rush. He lived alone in the wilderness after his family died.
4kRZg TIL that a fraction of a second after the Big Bang, the universe had expanded and cooled enough for the first protons to form. It would take about 378,000 years for the first hydrogen atoms to form.
vPdbK TIL the month we are born do have some statistical connection to our health and likeliness of some diseases to manifest.
eOo4 TIL that in 2013, a scientific experiment at Hebrew University of Jerusalem found the evidence for something called “Herding effect” - that on sites like Reddit, 1 early upvote would boost the final comment score by an average of 25 Percent by changing perception of how people look at it