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TIL that in terms of long distance running, there is no animal that can outrun a human… this may have helped humans tire their prey and made them easier to hunt

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78prb TIL the Rolling Stones were the first to record the Lennon–McCartney song I Wanna Be Your Man as their first top 20 single in the UK
5YWbp TIL that Battle of Grunwald painting depicting Polish-Lithuanian victory over German Teutonic Order topped list of most wanted paintings by Nazis, whoes aim was to destroy it. Bounty of 10M marks was offred by Goebbles and several restance mebers died protecting its location, but it survived the war
Wk4Po TIL Joe Rogan is second cousins with Gerard and Mikey Way of My Chemical Romance
7Ogp TIL Army PFC LaVena Johnson’s 2005 death at a base in Balad, Iraq was ruled a “suicide.” She had a broken nose, black eye, loose teeth, burns from corrosive chemicals on her genitals and a gunshot wound.
ep00D TIL potatoes are native to South America. Potatoes were introduced to the rest of the world only in the last 500 years.