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TIL ancient human ancestor Homo erectus ate cooked food as long ago as 1.9 million years

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X04gQ TIL Hawaii is the best place on earth to see rainbows. There are words for Earth-clinging rainbows (uakoko), standing rainbow shafts (kāhili), barely visible rainbows (punakea), and moonbows (ānuenue kau pō). The rainbow is seen as a symbol of transformation and a pathway between Earth and Heaven.
XEPvE TIL The name of mid-90s fad, "Pogs" was actually an acronym for Passion/Orange/Guava, which was the type of juice that kids used the caps of when it was first invented in Hawaii
QGML TIL: “A lack of physical activity is one of the leading causes of preventable death worldwide.”
6x8X TIL the design of the Space Shuttle was influenced by the United States Air Force, which wanted the ability to snatch Soviet spy satellites out of orbit.
Zn8G TIL on the stroke of midnight on Jan 1, 1900, the SS Warrimoo intentionally crossed the international date line exactly at the equator. This put the vessel in two different seasons and two different centuries at the same time.