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TIL Lincoln Logs were created by John Lloyd Wright, son of the renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright

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rNYww TIL that Uranus’s poles get 42 years of continuous darkness and then sunlight. This is due to the axial tilt of 97.77 degrees (Earth is 23.4 degrees)
W7B0B TIL about the Doctor's Riot of 1788 in NYC, which left up to 20 dead and was a reaction to physicians and medical students stealing bodies from graves. It forced doctors in the city to go into hiding.
160dW TIL we don't know the first name of Newman from Seinfeld. Also, Jerry only hated Newman because he thought it would be fun to hate him.
4v0a TIL that scientists have found a complete skull from a human ancestor believed to be 1.8 million years old. Known as Skull 5, the skull is entirely intact and has a long face, large teeth and a small brain case.
BgQBb TIL: The Sateré-Mawé tribe coming of age ritual involves gathering bullet ants, weaving them into a glove, sedating them, and then putting on the glove an hour later so that when the ants wake up, they are furious. Boys have to do this about 20 times at age 13 before becoming a man.