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TIL that evidence suggests Neanderthals used boats before modern humans

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mxgyo TIL about Her Grand Ducal Highness Princess Elisabeth, who went from being Governor of Moscow under Tsar Alexander III, to an Orthodox nun, trading her riches away for a tiny monastery.
MeLjB TIL On June 8, 1978, Larry Bird signed a five-year, $3.25 million contract with the Boston Celtics making him the highest-paid rookie in sports history at the time.
gM6oW TIL George Lucas was fined $250,000 and "The Empire Strikes Back" was nearly pulled from theatres because he put screen credits at the end of the movie (which was rare) to preserve the dramatic opening sequences.
78gDx TIL about flood geology, the attempt to correlate real landscape features and the presence of coal or oil with the Biblical Great Flood
6ErrQ TIL that the RMS Carpathia only heard the Titanic's distress call because Carpathia's wireless operator, Harold Cottam, was listening to his telegraph while getting into his pajamas, several minutes after his shift had ended. Had he signed off when he was supposed to, there may have been no rescue.