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TIL that there are over 100 tribes around the world who reject contact with the outside world.

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4XeWw TIL of Joachim Neander - latin for "New Man"- a 17th century pastor who composed music inspired by a small German valley. That valley would be the site of the discovery of a new species of hominid called Neanderthal.
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jryN TIL that on this date in 1777, British soldiers ambushed sleeping U.S. soldiers with bayonets, killing or wounding 200. Less than two years later, the American general who was ambushed used the same tactic on the British, killing 94 and capturing nearly 500.