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TIL students uncovered a village in Canada that is 10,000 years older than the Pyramids

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78EA7 TIL When Einstein and his wife Mileva Maric divorced, his son Hans Albert had a grudge against his father and when he said he wanted to be an engineer at 15 which made Einstein furious
OG4NL TIL because the inventor never bothered to explain what the letter "p" in the pH scale stood for, the exact meaning is unknown.
LQLQr TIL that the modern camel, the epitome of adaptation to extreme desert climate, actually originates in the northern North American Paracamelus which migrated across the Bering land bridge into Asia around 6 million years ago
lo5P5 TIL in Scotland and Ireland, 29 February in a leap year is said to be the one day when a woman can propose to her partner. Finland has the same custom, with the addition that a man rejecting such a proposal was expected to buy his suitor enough cloth for a skirt as compensation.
LL7m TIL a wealthy Chinese tycoon was jailed for electrocuting, butchering and eating endangered tigers at his dinner parties.