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TIL that evidence suggests Neanderthals used boats before modern humans

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QNx5X TIL the Titles of Nobility amendment, pending ratification since 1810, would strip US citizenship from anyone who "shall, without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office or emolument of any kind from any . . . foreign power"
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