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TIL that women made most of the oldest-known cave art paintings. By comparing the relative lengths of certain fingers researchers determined that three-quarters of the handprints were female.

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6EDYY TIL only 1% of DNA is for protein-coding genes, the rest 99% is non-coding and was once thought to be junk. Later studies found that it can't be that such a huge chunk is just "packaging material" and it is starting to become clear that it has many uses, mainly as a regulator of different sorts
NXPrE TIL in 2011 the burial site of a "sorcerer" from the late Holocene was discovered near Adelaide in Australia
Wk08Y TIL that Alan Silvestri, composer for the soundtrack to 'Back to the Future' and 'The Avengers', learned to score a film from a book on film scoring. He bought it the night before a meeting with the producer of 'The Doberman Gang'
9YomX TIL teenagers take more risk not only due to an undeveloped frontal cortex, but also due to higher dopamine response that provides greater rewards for novel activities
8aKYP TIL that Clifford Roberts, co-founder of Augusta National Golf Club and the Masters Golf Tournament, serving as chairmen of the club from 1931 to 1976, committed suicide on the course at age 83.