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TIL that geomagnetic storms are correlated with an increase in suicide all over the world

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R7VRl TIL that modern humans and neanderthals interbred, and as a result, all non-Africans carry between one and four percent Neanderthal DNA.
v15j7 TIL Lula oil field in Brazil is considered to be the western hemisphere's largest oil discovery of the last 30 years.
6gxw TIL Christopher Walken narrated Where the Wild Things Are (book). He even describes every picture.
x6PX7 TIL of incense clocks that tell time with fire. They were used in China since at least 6 AD. Some even could trigger alarms by burning through threads holding metal balls and causing them to fall, or used scented chips so you could tell time with a sniff
7rkAp TIL The “XXX” signifies how many times the moonshine batch had been run through the still. Three X’s indicated that it had been run through three times and that the shine was pure alcohol.