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TIL that the "Dead Sea Scrolls" were discovered in the 1940s, a set of ancient scripts written by an independent Jewish sect called the Essences

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WrRX TIL Danielle Radcliffes stunt double for the harry potter films, David Holmes, injured his spine when a stunt went wrong and is now paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair
8aKvP TIL the human body is biome that houses 10,000 or more species of microorganisms that live in and on our body.
16ow7 TIL Westinghouse acquired CBS in 1994, sold most of its own non media business, then renamed itself CBS in 1997
e0JP5 TIL rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival played the 1969 Woodstock festival but refused to allow their performance to be included in the movie or on the soundtrack. The Greatful Dead had just finished a long mellow set so when CCR took the stage after midnight most of the audience was asleep.
Oo0wY TIL scientists created a mouse colony that started with 4 males and 4 females. The colony peaked at 2200 and from there declined to extinction. When 'overpopulation' was reached, most of the mouses stopped reproducing and "just ate, slept, and groomed."