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TIL - That Chimpanzees Make and Use Spears

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VBLvm TIL the physical virginity of Jesus' mother was so important in the Middle Ages, paintings depicted Mary getting pregnant through her ear with a beam of light from the Holy Ghost.
BgR5b TIL that the UK banned the sale of lead paint to the general public in 1992, only allowed it to be sold to specialists
MoJ7 TIL As a kid, Michio Kaku got 400 pounds of transformer steel and 44 miles of copper wire, to create a 6 kilowatt, 10,000 gauss magnetic field on his high school football field. He created a particle accelerator to find antimatter.
OoB1X TIL There's a place in the Pacific Ocean called Point Nemo. It s so far from land, the nearest humans are often astronauts. The ISS orbits the Earth at a maximum of 258 miles (416km). Meanwhile the nearest inhabited landmass to Point Nemo is over 1,670 miles (2,700km) away.
DQPPV TIL that scientists have discovered a tiny parasitic wasp that turns spiders into zombie bodyguards. This wasp, known as Dicopomorpha echmepterygis, injects its eggs into a spider, which then continues to perform its regular tasks but ultimately sacrifices itself to protect the developing wasps.