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TIL that the phrase “rule of thumb” refers to estimating measurements with one’s thumb and has nothing to do with the thickness of a stick for beating one’s wife

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GAYj7 TIL Neanderthals sailed the Mediterranean. Stone tools, of the kind made by Neanderthals, were found in areas that were known to be distant islands at the time.
58Mr TIL that the original lyric in the Rolling Stones’ Sympathy for the Devil was “I shouted out ‘Who killed Kennedy?’ This had to be changed to "I shouted out 'Who killed the Kennedys?’” after RFK was assassinated while the song was being recorded.
lNZV TIL that many German monks would sustain themselves on nothing but beer and water for the entire 40 days of Lent.
XEbyR TIL that in 2004, John Hutcherson drove home drunk with a friend hanging out the window. He sideswiped a telephone-pole support wire, decapitating his friend. He continued home, parked in the driveway and went to bed. A neighbor found the headless body the next morning.