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TIL that Steven Spielberg has been thanked in more Oscar speeches than God

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b6YVE TIL: Eumachia was a Roman business woman and priestess, being one of the few wealthy women of the time and funded many public buildings under the practice of euergetism, which is the practice in which high status/wealthy distribute their wealth to the community. Her statue is in the Naples Museum.
nVd TIL Bob Ross donated all of the paintings from the TV shows to PBS stations across the country
QNZRX TIL there's a theory that the evolution to light skin in Europeans only occurred around 12,000-6,000 years ago.
WkyeB TIL that bacon has enough energy to melt metal
vPy8K TIL about unisexual mole salamanders - a group of all-female salamanders that use a unique reproductive strategy called kleptogenesis. These salamanders "steal" sperm from up to five different species of salamanders in the Ambystoma genus and use it to produce female hybrid offspring.