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TIL that an Australian man searching for a toilet stumbled across the oldest-known evidence of Aboriginal settlement in existence from 49,000 years ago

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VljB TIL that a majority of Americans believe China is the world’s top economic power (the US is actually still #1). Interestingly, Republicans and younger Americans are more likely to believe that China has surpassed the United States.
96mX TIL Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner eat dinner every night at Carl’s house off of TV stands while watching movies together
o7J7 TIL The Beatles were considering to name their 1969 album Everest and even flying to the Himalayas to shoot the cover photo. Instead, they named it Abbey Road and shot the cover photo in front of the studio.
KaRG TIL : Hours before being murdered by Jack the Ripper, Catherine Eddowes was taken into police custody after being found drunk, when prompted for her name, she gave the police a fake name, “Mary Kelly” A woman named Mary Kelly was the next victim. [NSFW]
mdEv TIL that over 350 documented cases of lynchings happened in California. But unlike their Southern, African American counterparts, the victims of this violence were largely Latino.