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TIL chipping a stone ax like early humans did 1.8 million years ago activates the same brain circuits used by modern human musicians

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R5w79 TIL That the symbol ^ is called a "caret" not a "carrot", from the Latin meaning "it lacks"
m1Wwp TIL Prairie Dogs Are Squirrels
R77Ol Vaccination is underway for the 2017-2018 seasonal flu, and next year will mark the 100-year anniversary of the 1918 flu pandemic, which killed roughly 40 million people.
Rol TIL during the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, one Israeli tank commander single-handedly fought off an entire advancing Syrian tank battalion, taking advantage of the darkness and moving constantly to make the Syrians believe they were facing a full Israeli armored division while destroying 40 Syrian tanks.