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TIL: The Sea Peoples were a confederacy of naval raiders who harried the coastal towns and cities of the Mediterranean region between c. 1276-1178 BCE

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9YOV7 TIL In 2014, Walter Williams was pronounced dead. Paperwork was completed, he was put in a body bag and taken to a funeral home. When he was taken to the embalming room, his legs began to move and the coroner noticed him lightly breathing. He was still alive. Two weeks later he died for real.
V7eZ TIL Sir Hugh Beaver, of the Guinness Breweries, got into an argument over which was the fastest game bird in Europe. There was no book in the world with which to settle arguments about records and questions debated nightly in pubs throughout Ireland. Guinness World Records was born.
P1EyO TIL Ancient DNA shows that the culture that brought Bronze Age technology to Britain was connected to a migration that almost completely replaced the island's earlier inhabitants, the latter who were the Neolithic communities responsible for huge megalithic monuments such as Stonehenge.
PY1aJ TIL about solid-state batteries - possible replacement to lithium-ion batteries especially in cars
PYlXw TIL 70% of Brunei is covered in pristine rainforest and the government reassured environmental groups that it is not open to proposals for large-scale facilities that might disturb the jungle environment