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TIL: The Varna Culture's grave goods contain several times more gold than the other excavated sites from the same millennium combined

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EgW7w TIL: Ayers Rock is now referred to as Uluru
xVl0o TIL No-one knows who actually invented the fire hydrant, as its patent was destroyed in a fire at the U.S Patent Office in 1836.
neGXr TIL that Edward of Woodstock, the eldest son of King Edward III was known as "The Black Prince" likely because of his black armour and that he once captured King John II of France in 1356 but treated him well and even served him a meal.
8avp8 TIL Many Hanna-Barbera characters had collars in order to make them easier (and cheaper) to animate. Redrawing only their heads in each frame when they spoke.
Wk9od TIL that in Uber's 2018 fatal self-driving car accident the system mis-identified the pedestrian and didn't act to avoid the accident. The car's emergency braking system could have acted at the last second, but that system had been disabled.