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TIL that the balloon was invented by Michael Faraday

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KO6na TIL Shanidar 1 was a Neanderthal fossil that, even though he developed several severe disabilities while he was alive, lived to be 35-45 years old because his social group fed and cared for him.
XEVMD TIL of the Iron harvest, where unexploded ordnance and equipment from WW1 is uncovered by French and Belgian farmers when ploughing their fields each year
X8MP TIL there was a pod of killer whales in Eden, Australia between 1840 and 1930 that would assist whalers in hunting baleen whales. The killer whales would find target whales, shepherd them into Twofold Bay, and alert whalers to their presence, often helping them to kill the whales.
YpJ6G TIL that tonic water contains Quinine, a medication originlly used to treat malaria and babesiosis, which also glows under a UV light.
R7L6w TIL that Johnny Cash’s guitar player died in 1968. Cash found himself at a show where the temporary replacement, Carl Perkins, couldn’t make it. An audience member asked Cash if he could fill in for the night, and he said yes. Bob Wootton then became Cash’s guitar player for the next 29 years