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TIL that making and consuming alcoholic drinks actually predates READING! By about 6500 years! People could get their buzz on, but couldn't freakin' read!

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BP8r TIL That the Venus Flytrap is only native to one area of the world. That area; North and South Carolina.
P1dLe TIL Nevada is the state with the highest percentage of Vegans
nelaG TIL Some police departments won’t hire people who have above-average IQ
GYD8Q TIL Velociraptors had feathers and were only around 20 inches tall - roughly the size of a turkey but with a longer body.
JlWm TIL the Oh My God Particle, an ultra high energy particle (a billion times more energy than the LHC’s output) that travels so absurdly fast, time dilation dictates that it would have experienced 16 days of time since the beginning of the universe