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TIL that the political terms "left-wing" and "right-wing" originated in the French Revolution,where anti-royalists would sit on the presiding officer's left in the French National Assembly, and the more conservative supporters of the monarchy sat to the right.

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p8MBG TIL that there is now unrefutable evidence that confirms the validity of the previously-labeled "absurd" theory that humans existed in the Americas before the end of the last ice age, further suggesting that a cataclysmic event could have wiped out a previously unknown civilization
87Ga TIL that In 2010, a Colorado money manager maimed a cyclist in a hit-and-run. He escaped felony charges by arguing that the smell of his new Mercedes-Benz had aggravated his sleep apnea, which briefly knocked him out.
LQ14m TIL Rhinoplasty(nose reconstruction surgery) has been performed since 3000 BC in Egypt, and a 600 BC Indian technique using a flap of skin from the cheek to reconstruct the nose is still in use today.
GAYWg TIL of Jack Brabham, a former racing driver, who founded the Brabham racing team, winning the 1966 Formula 1 championship driving one of his own cars, the only time it has happened
WvRY TIL that a StingRay tracker mimics a wireless carrier cell tower in order to force nearby phones & cellular data devices to connect to it then it can extract & write to metadata on your device and an operator can conduct specific surveillance operations on just the target device; and it’s legal.