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Today I learned that a 50,000-Year-Old Needle was found in a Denisova Cave

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9PN6 TIL that space travel gives astronauts a feeling of being completely engulfed by a profound sense of universal connectedness
x6ekk TIL: The little (or big) farts that proceed a poop are called the Anal Sampling Reflex.
e0np5 TIL that the harder you throw an 18th century Tomahawk, the slower it rotates. Applies to knives too.
Xxr TIL there is a website that helps you determine which candidate’s views are closest to your own.
5YpbD TIL that use of the word "road" for a fixed land route started at the end of the 16th century, with Shakespeare the first known user. Because of that, there are no roads in the "City of London" (London's medieval core): all the ways there had been named before the word came into the English language