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TIL that Neanderthals invented the earliest known synthetic material by deliberately distilling birch tar in underground, oxygen-poor setups

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kOYEd TIL Coca-Cola approved the use of their famous polar bear ad in the film Natural Born Killers without knowing what it was about, and were furious when they found out
wLWL8 TIL of the Germanwings Flight 9525 crash, where the co-pilot deliberately crashed the plane into a mountainside after locking the captain out of the cockpit. The co-pilot had hidden the fact his doctor had been treating him for suicidal tendencies and declared him "unfit to work". 150 people died.
AWXx TIL ‘Playboy’ once featured a short story about heterosexual men being persecuted in a world where homosexuality was the norm. In response to angry letters Hefner wrote, “If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society then the reverse was wrong, too.”
gMx5X TIL ‘My Humps’ by The Black Eyed Peas is considered by many critics to be the worst song of all time, with one stating it ‘may actually represent the nadir of human achievement’
4kJwR TIL Manbo means Sunfish in Japanese so Manbo's Mambo in The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening isn't just a random rhyming song title (and Manbo the character is just named that because he is a Sunfish)