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TIL Five US States - Delaware, Maine, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming - all lack a city over 100k population

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8ax4a TIL that archeologist Virginia Steen-McIntyre dated a human settlement in Hueyatlaco Mexico to 250,000 BCE some 200,000+ years before most other estimates. Despite the fact that she confirmed this date through four different scientific tests, her research has remained not widely accepted.
16J04 TIL That there are clay pipes that wash up in The Thames, having been used for centuries as disposable, short-term pipes. They went out of favor with the rise of cigarettes.
JdMV TIL That the Beats audio driver included with some laptops actually makes the sound worse than stock when you turn it off, to make the beats ‘enhancements’ sound better by comparison.
0wrY1 Today I learned Howard Hughes loved banana nut ice cream so much his aides convinced Baskin-Robbins to produce a 350 gallon special order of the discontinued product. A few days later he grew tired of it and decided he only wanted French Vanilla so his hotel gave away the ice cream to customers.
LJpP TIL a man cracked the knuckles on only one of his hands for sixty years to prove that knuckle cracking doesn’t cause arthritis, earning him the 2009 Ig Nobel Prize