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TIL Neanderthals used medicinal plants

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kyD4 TIL It would take a person 59 days straight to count to one million. A man named Jeremy Harper counted to up to it for charity in 2007. He counted for 16 hours a day and raised $10,000 (one penny per number).
QNxJL TIL that Steamboat Willie was attached to Gang War, a movie that has since faded into obscurity and is now considered lost.
VMAlG TIL in psychology there is a principle called “contrast” (if you left a heavy item first then a light item second, the second item will feel lighter than actually it is). That’s why online businesses show you the expensive items first so the less expensive items seem cheap and affordable to you.
PY6BE TIL that the song “This Land is Your Land” was made to spite the song “God Bless America” for being too blindly patriotic
W7xVB TIL in the 1890s Spain gave 8 days to all rural Cubans to move to concentration camps, killing those who didn't comply. By 1898, a third of Cuba's population was in concentration camps, and over 400,000 Cubans in the camps were dead, or over 20% of the island's population