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TIL In 1867, Dina Sanichar was discovered by a group of hunters in India's Uttar Pradesh jungle, the 6-year-old was walking on all fours and was following a pack of wolves.

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VMWd4 TIL The Toba Catastrophe Theory contends that the eruption of the Toba supervolcano 75,000 years ago nearly made humans go extinct, reducing global population to somewhere between 2,000 and 20,000 people.
epEln TIL about the “Behavioral Sink” - a term invented by John B. Calhoun to describe a collapse in behavior that can result from overpopulation
lr8K TIL: Ray Kroc (The founder of McDonald’s) and Walt Disney (The founder of Disney) both served in the same ambulance unit during World War 1.
yQY6X TIL Closing Time by Semisonic Is About Childbirth, Not Last Call at a Bar.
LoPQ TIL when St. Augustine, writing in the fourth century A.D., observed his teacher St. Ambrose reading to himself without moving his tongue or murmuring, he thought the unusual behavior so noteworthy as to record it in his “Confessions”.