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TIL there’s Evidence the Flood Story Predates Noah

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Lkmkm TIL Australia has slower internet than countries like Kenya, Romania and Pakistan.
gMVJ9 TIL Genital Herpes (HSV2) dates back millions of years. Scientists found that early ancestors (Homo Erectus) most likely contracted it from another early hominin (Parathropus Boisei). Probably likely through scavenging ancestral chimp meat.
WkgB4 TIL that in a 2017 criminal case, the US government put the secrecy of its hacking tools above all else. Prosecutors chose to drop all charges in a case of child exploitation on the dark web rather than reveal the technological means they used to locate the anonymized Tor user.
b9OZ7 TIL that the "General Sherman" tree in the Giant Forest is approximately 2200 years old. It would have been a little sapling 200 years before Jesus walked the earth
nW1W TIL that a copy of a groundbreaking British economics report was found in Hitler’s bunker, with annotations stating that the British system was far superior to any Nazi socio/economic policy.