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TIL: Wyatt Earp served as an unpaid technical consultant for Hollywood Westerns

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QNMoX TIL The Identical Ancestor Point in humans is estimated to be most likely about ~5400 BC. Anyone with even one living descendant who was alive before the IAP is also an ancestor to all humans alive today.
womN8 TIL: The "Festival of Drunkeness" in Ancient Egypt celebrates the sensory elements of life and pleases the goddess Hathor and participants believed alcohol saved humanity. There was drinking, dancing, and sex to the point of passing out and being woken by temple bells the next day for prayer.
7rPAb TIL of Yoñlu, a Brazilian singer-songwriter. After commiting suicide at the age of sixteen, his work was found in a CD-R by his parents, and was released posthumously, becoming rather successful within the independent scene. Now, he's getting a movie done on his life, also known as "Yoñlu".
ZpZR TIL that the sentence, “I never said she stole my money,” has 7 different meanings depending on the word you stress.
D10Lr TIL that in 19th-century England, green indicated homosexual affiliations. Victorian gay men would often pin a green carnation on their lapel as popularized by openly gay author Oscar Wilde, who often wore one on his lapel.