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TIL High stress and too much coffee can make you hear things

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M7n0 TIL Early humans hunted by chasing animals until they collapsed from overheating. Some tribes in Africa still do this today.
GxLQ TIL the Han Dynasty in China was aware of the existence of the Roman Empire, calling them Daqin or “great Qin”. In 97 CE the Chinese attempted to send an envoy but he turned back after reaching a large “western sea”, discouraged by the long and perilous journey it would take to reach Rome itself.
69eQ7 TIL Trent Reznor’s Nine Inch Nails was previously part of a 80s pop band called Slam Bamboo
51KB TIL that in 1982, AT&T, which had complete control of the telephone service in the US, broke up into 7 companies due to an antitrust case. Now, 4 of those companies once again belong to AT&T, 2 to Verizon, and the last to CenturyLink.
Dr1r TIL that ‘Kung-Fu Panda’ (2008) was so successful in China that it caused a national debate on why Westerners made a better film about Chinese culture than the Chinese themselves