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TIL: Only 1,280 breeding humans once roamed Earth, gene study shows

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KOQPa TIL The reason why we view neanderthals as hunched over and degenerate is that the first skeleton to be found was arthritic.
6E5Jm TIL on April 19th, 1943, Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann made his legendary bicycle ride home from his lab in Basel shortly after ingesting 250 micrograms of LSD, making this the first ever acid trip
e0LE6 TIL that Lois Duncan, the author of I Know What You Did Last Summer, abandoned writing YA horror/thrillers (a genre she is largely responsible for popularising) after her own daughter was murdered in a still-unsolved case.
BA1d TIL A coal power plant produces more radioactive waste than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy
yw9X TIL that the last Beatles song was recorded in 1995. The three surviving members (at the time) reunited to complete an unfinished John Lennon single, and the finished product was credited to the Beatles.