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TIL Everyone in the world has a common ancestor that lived 5000-10000 years ago

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a8ADy Today I learned that New Zealand have a law that bans anyone born January 1 2009 or later from buying tobacco, meaning there will one day be only 1 person in New Zealand who is legally allowed to buy cigarettes
LkX8m TIL that in 2003 Serbian wedding guests accidentally shot down a small plane with celebratory gunfires
GAK9j TIL the dog from The Thing (1982) also played the wolf in Journey of Natty Gann (1985) and White Fang (1991).
16ZZO TIL about Evangelista Torricelli, an Italian physicist and mathematician, and his groundbreaking creation of a vacuum. In 1643, he invented the barometer, an instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure that led to his famous observation that, "We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air."
R7lr9 TIL that Killian, a black labrador, saved a baby boy from an abusive babysitter by staying between the baby and the sitter and alerting the parents. Parents tried recording the scene, and the sitter was convicted.