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TIL DNA can be traced back 17000 Years

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R7De4 TIL: flight attendants hate serving diet coke because the air pressure makes it fizz way more than other sodas.
9Y7jB TIL: O’Reilly books have artwork of creatures on the covers because their original graphic artist thought that Unix program names sounded like “weird animals”
neE9 TIL The reason the Allies knew about atrocities at Auschwitz was Polish captain Witold Pilecki, who let himself be captured, prepared inmates to uprise, distributed extra food, and built a secret radio transmitter. Pilecki was unknown until 1989, but was given Poland’s highest decoration in 2006.
OlAg TIL that only THREE books have survived from the Maya Civilisation pre-European contact.
ONaX TIL handshakes were originally meant to confirm you had no weapons in your hands or up your sleeves (hence the shaking motion to jiggle them out)