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

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5YREp TIL on May 6 2010 the US Stock Market had its single largest drop in its 110 year history, with the Dow Jones plunging nearly 1000 points and the market losing over $1,000,000,000,000 dollars. It recovered 36 minutes later.
M7GQb TIL the Hoover Institution has a recording thought to be of a secretly bugged meeting of British and American POWs in a German POW camp.
4gm5 TIL that Scrooge McDuck “died” in 1967
e0Lk5 TIL Norway practices restorative justice in their prison system and prisons mimic normal life. Prisoners get many amenities and benefits and sometimes keep their jobs on the outside while serving time, commuting daily. Norway's recidivism rate is one of the lowest in the world at 20% within 5 yrs.
6EYYm TIL Northern Hemisphere rainwater still contains 3x as much radioactive tritium than Southern Hemisphere rainwater due to atmospheric nuclear bomb tests from the 1960s