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TIL the discoverer of the Titanic found evidence of ancient habitation beneath the Black Sea, suggesting a flood of “biblical” proportions.

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BmEx TIL Biggie Smalls did not allow his best friend Lil Cease into the studio when he recorded ‘This Time Around’ with Michael Jackson because Big didn’t trust Michael with kids (Cease was 16 at the time)
awypy TIL K-Y Jelly required a prescription in the US until 1980
WZYB TIL the word boycott derived from Charles Boycott, an agent who collected rent from Irish farms on behalf of the British. Farmers demanded rent reductions, Boycott refused and evicted those tenants. Rather than attack Boycott the Irish farmers refused to do business with him at all. Boycotting.
5Yblr TIL: Ninjas would carry crickets or cicadas to disguise their sound when they needed.
Knkw TIL that according to Navajo culture the weaver of a rug would deliberately put an imperfection, called a “ch’ihónít’i” (“spirit line”), believed to allow the release of the weaver’s spirit from the woven item, and also symbolizes the perfection-in-imperfection