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TIL Aerogel (an ultralight material used by NASA) was created by a scientist as the result of a bet whether he could replace the liquid in jellies with gas

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Oa8g TIL Neil deGrasse was dismissed for jury duty as he teaches a class in Princeton that looks at the “evaluation of evidence and the relative unreliability of eyewitness testimony.”
xOlg TIL that South Carolina was not flying the confederate flag for the first half of the 20th century, and only reintroduced it in the 1960s in response to being forced to integrate their schools.
8ljP TIL that in 2006, thieves planning to steal one of a zoo’s koalas changed tack after it proved too vicious and stole a crocodile instead which was easier
vPEB7 TIL that around 20.000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Maximum, the sea level was about 410ft (125m) lower than today and permanent summer ice covered 25% of the Earth’s land surface.
9YAyG TIL the earliest evidence of hominid murder is 430,000 yr old skull found in the Atapuerca Mountains of Spain. The skull has two distinct holes in the forehead, thought to be from blunt force trauma and was found dumped down a deep shaft in a cave.