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TIL that when we find out a presumed meteorite turns out to just be a normal rock, they are called "Meteorwrongs"

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QNZRX TIL there's a theory that the evolution to light skin in Europeans only occurred around 12,000-6,000 years ago.
nW6nb TIL that scientists discovered a hidden corridor in Great Pyramid of Giza that could lead to further findings.
rRKG4 TIL that Paul McCartney started the recording of "Hey Jude" unaware that Ringo wasn't there and sitting on the toilet. Ringo tiptoed his way back into the studio just in time for the drums to start.
OGGwa TIL Sigmund Freud was the first to state that cerebral palsy can be caused by abnormal development before birth. He noticed that some children who experienced oxygen loss during childbirth were not affected, while others were
P1Jee TIL Mount Erebus is the highest active volcano in Antarctica, and the southernmost active volcano on Earth. The volcano has been active for around 1.3 million years and has a long-lived lava lake in its inner summit crater that has been present since at least the early 1970s