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TIL that Hunter gatherers had better teeth and jaws then we do today, our modern dental problems started when we moved to agricultural farming.

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kJYkE TIL that there was an FBI agent that warned them that Al-Qaeda would attempt to bomb the world trade center again, and he died in 9/11 after he left the FBI
M7ZeW TIL that the poem Catullus 16 was considered so obscene that it's English translation was not fully published until the 20th century, nearly 2000 years after it's creation. The poem starts out saying "Pēdīcābō ego vōs et irrumābō" or in English, "I will sodomize you and face-fuck you"
4XPrJ TIL Nicolas Cage did magic mushrooms after his cat snuck into his refrigerator and ate some.
wQ6P TIL there have been no beehive losses in Cuba. Unable to import pesticides due to the embargo, the island now exports valuable organic honey.
P1VwV TIL that after the Battle of Waterloo, sugar factories were specifically built near the battlefield to mass-extract soldiers’ bones and char them into bleach for beet sugar — meaning 19th-century Europeans unknowingly sweetened their tea with the remains of fallen men