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TIL that Indiana Jones has changed the image of archaeology. Before ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ (1981), people imagined an archaeologist as a weak, older person who needs rescuing. Now the stereotype is a male Ivy League professor/adventurer with a bullwhip.

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yv5M TIL Los Angeles once had the largest electric rail system in the world, until automobile, tire, and oil companies bought and dismantled it, along with mass transit systems in 44 other US cities. The mass transit systems were replaced with freeways and buses, increasing sales of cars, tires, and oil.
xv4w TIL that certain medals at the 2014 winter Olympics will contain fragments of the meteorite which hit Russia.
eeXE TIL in Germany, a cross can only be present in the classroom only if all the students agree that it should, and it has to be taken off in case any student objects
4RoN TIL the “2-3 months salary” a guy should spend on a engagement ring was a marketing campaign by diamond mining company De Beers
Rnw4 TIL the airspeed velocity of an unladen european swallow is 24 mph, or 40 km/h