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TIL cooking has a million-year history

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jNknE TIL Alaric I, King of the Vandals, died in 411 shortly after sacking Rome. The Busento river was diverted while Alaric and his treasure were buried in the riverbed. The river was returned to its normal course. The treasure might still be there today.
DD9D TIL that solitary confinement can cause neurological damage that is so profound it can be seen on EEG-scans and “the brain may become as impaired as one that has incurred a traumatic injury”
rNrm1 TIL about Stargazers, a family of fish that eyes on the top of their heads. They usually catch food by hiding in the sand and leaping upwards when the prey passes overhead.
4aX TIL that Kevin Heffernan (Farva from Super Troopers) is a lawyer and passed the bar in both NY and CT
RLY9 TIL a pair of gay penguins in Norway adopted an egg and it hatched.