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TIL that someone anonymously donated over $200 million to Berkeley for their Data Science program. It was the largest donation in the UC campus’s history.

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R7QNa TIL On the floor of a cave in southern France were found a number of detailed portraits of humans dating back to the Ice Age.
woEZM TIL the United Nations declared drinking water as a human right...in July of 2010.
ZlB TIL there is evidence we have a sense of being stared at.
7x0x TIL that the first successful surgery to repair an anal fistula was performed on Louis XIV in 1686; anal fistula surgery then became highly fashionable, with members of the royal court lining up to undergo the procedure (whether they needed it or not) or faking it by placing bandages on their bums
vOQx TIL that in 1961 at Jackass Flats, Nevada, the United States successfully tested a nuclear aircraft engine that would hug the terrain at mach 3. During its flight to the target, the proposed unmanned bomber would have deafened, flattened, and irradiated our allies. The project was cancelled in 1964.