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TIL DNA can be traced back 17000 Years
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TIL of the death of Rudolf Rupp. His wife, two daughters, and one of their boyfriends falsely confessed to and were sentenced to jail for killing, dismembering, and feeding Rupp to dogs on the family farm. They were all later acquitted when his body was found intact in his car in the Danube.
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TIL: The oldest known example of figurative art is a 40,000 year old lion-headed sculpture carved out of the ivory of a woolly mammoth.
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TIL that The Netherlands sends 20,000 tulips to Canada each year as thanks for their aid during World War II.
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TIL According to English laws for co-production of movies, the majority of movies making over $50 million in UK Box Offices were UK productions.
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TIL that Louis Leakey joked to Dian Fossey that she should have her appendix removed if she were serious about studying gorillas in the wild. By the time he clarified this in a letter, she had already gotten the surgery.