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TIL that there is evidence of early humans being killed and eaten by eagles

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4kelb TIL for 2 years the US had a 100 year old man as president of the senate; being 3rd in line for the presidency
ewOJ TIL that a Singaporean pilot, Tsu Whey Ming, committed murder/suicide by intentionally crashing the 737-300 he was piloting, killing all 104 people on board, and that the Indonesian authorities covered up the report prompting the U.S. NTSB, in an unprecedented move, to publicly contradict them
MeQMV TIL that after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, the prime minister of Portugal sent a query to parishes around the country in order to objectively understand what happened. He is now regarded as a forerunner of modern seismological scientists.
woxmY TIL of the Mani pulite, a 1990s Italian corruption scandal that implicated over half the parliament and members of over 400 city and town councils.
bK8p TIL that Dean Koontz decided not to sue the filmmakers of High Tension for plagiarizing his book Intensity because he found the film to be so puerile, so disgusting, and so intellectually bankrupt he didn’t want the association with it that would come from a lawsuit.