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TIL a canadian 15-year-old boy discovered a Mayan city correlating constellations and the location of Mayan cities.

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ANmVB TIL an ChatGPT detected an X user's urgent health crisis: 'If I had arrived 30 mins later, I would have lost an organ.'
kOapm TIL Ancient weapons pre-dating the Clovis culture have been discovered in Texas - Spear points that pre-date the Clovis culture by up to 2,500 years have been discovered at the Buttermilk Creek archaeological site in Texas.
9YQrr TIL in 1999 the U.S. Space Command used a pet ferret named Misty to run the wiring for the new computer systems in a missile warning center.
p8lb TIL. Sporus was a young boy whom Emperor Nero castrated and married. He was addressed as ‘Lady’, 'Empress’ or 'Mistress’ and considered to be Nero’s 'boy toy’.
7r5X7 TIL that in 1993, scientist Cesare Emiliani proposed switching the Gregorian calendar to the Holocene calendar which would account for the entirety of human civilization, starting 12,000 years ago at Year 0. Making the current year 12021 HE (Human Era).