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TIL that we have discovered only two interstellar objects that have passed through our solar system.

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Eg4Kd TIL Ben Ferencz is the last living prosecutor from the Nuremburg Trials and is 102 years old
BgWPx TIL 100 years ago, the big band song "Masculine Women, Feminine Men" worried that women were too manly for smoking and playing pool, while men were too effeminate for buying cologne and dressing their children
x60wk TIL that despite spending so much time around it, Sea Mammals cannot see the colour blue.
KYG04 TIL a Guatemalan boy saw soldiers come into his village and murder his parents along with the rest of the village, was adopted and raised in an abusive household by one of the men who massacred the villagers, and later gave testimony that sent the killer to prison with a 6,000 year sentence
R5enl TIL Stone-age people were making porridge 32,000 years ago