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TIL One of the reasons the Great Wall of China still stands after so many years, is due to a secret binding agent in the mortar: sticky rice.

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Mmg8 TIL in 2003, archaeologists found 20,000 year old human footprints in the Australian Outback of a male they called T8. Scientists determined he was running 23 mph in mud, barefoot, and was even accelerating before the tracks stopped. Usain Bolt’s record for running speed is 27.44 mph.
OoP9Y Today I learned the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel Maus also co-created the Garbage Pail Kids.
8eErL TIL palm trees aren't trees. They're just massive plants like bamboo or banana 'trees'
874K TIL that venom needs to be injected, as opposed to poison, which need to be ingested.
rNW41 TIL that the last convicted Salem “witch” whose name had yet to be cleared, was officially exonerated just last year. Elizabeth Johnson Jr. was “innocent” of practicing witchcraft as of July 2022.