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TIL in 1992 a youth group descended into a French cave with steel brushes to remove graffiti… and ended up partially removing 15,000 year old bison cave paintings.

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w8M6 TIL that not only do we see distant stars as they were thousands of years ago, but we also still experience their gravity from thousands of years ago, and not from where they are now. We even experience the pull of gravity from stars that have burned out.
vP8B4 TIL the first global attempt to boycott a modern Olympics was in 1936 when they were being hosted in far right Nazi-controlled Germany. Anti-fascist people in Barcelona were set to host an alternative called "Olimpíada Popular" but it was cancelled due to a far right power grab in Spain at that time
e0NjJ TIL: Supernova remnants can still be visible 40,000 years after stars explode
O0L1 TIL In the 50’s, the CIA tried to assassinate Fidel Castro by slipping an exploding cigar into his private supply
nm0b TIL that due to the unusually high percentage of left-handed people in Springfield, a majority of the Simpson family are left handed too.