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TIL about mammoth hunters, people in Russia's far north who hunt for and sell "ice ivory": the tusks of mammoths. Some will illegally utilise firefighting equipment to melt ice and dig huge tunnels into the ground in search of remains.

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EggoX TiL of the existence of the "Prado" Mona Lisa, a copy of the famous work believed to have been painted by one of Da Vinci's students simultaneously as Da Vinci painted the original.
x6EO0 TIL that great apes go through a mid-life crisis. Their measured sense of well being bottoms out in their late 20's to the early 30's before rebounding later on. The finding that mid-life crises may not be uniquely human suggests they might have a biological, rather than a sociological, cause.
jala TIL The city of Hamburg, Germany banned K-Cups after deeming them “environmentally harmful”
6lg7 TIL A 3rd grade girl was expelled for a year because her grandmother sent her to school with a birthday cake and a knife to cut the cake. The teacher used the knife to cut the cake, then reported the girl to the authorities as having a dangerous weapon
QWdE TIL that when absorbed vaginally or orally, Semen acts as an anti-depressant for women- Happy Valentines Day