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TIL about the Bodo skull: a 600,000 year old early human fossil from Ethiopia. Cut marks on the skull indicate the individual was scalped with stone tools almost immediately after death.

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ojd7 TIL: In 1957, a luxury airliner mysteriously crashed in the Pacific while carrying multiple people with motive, means, and opportunity to cause the disaster. The mystery has been unsolved for almost 60 years.
R5Yrj TIL in 2023 a Tennessee man lost 58.5 lbs. after only eating half portions of McDonald's menu items for every meal for 100 days. He didn't exercise at all and never counted calories, however, his cholesterol level also went down by 65 points. His wife even participated with him for the final 60 days
ANDra TIL there is an earthquake zone in southern Missouri, and there was a magnitude 7.0 earthquake there in the early 1800s. The nature of the bedrock there means quakes can shake an area 20x bigger than quakes in California. There is a 1 in 10 probability of another in the next 50 years
GBR7 TIL that almost the entire population of Pitcairn Island is descended from the 9 mutineers who captured HMS Bounty from Captain Bligh, and that the burned wreck of the Bounty is still visible underwater in Bounty Bay at Pitcairn Island.
b6r84 TIL that Snoop Dogg is paid $500k a day plus expenses as a special correspondent for NBC until the end of the Olympics. Snoop Dogg will allegedly cash in a whopping total of $8m for the entire 16-day span of the Paris 2024 Olympics.