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TIL Mixing alcohol with diet soda instead of regular soda gets you drunk faster

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D1lme TIL the oldest mathematical artifact in the world is the Lebombo bone, found in the mountains of Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), Africa. The bone was likely used as a measurement device and to keep track of lunar cycles, suggesting that the first mathematicians might have been African women.
0X0R TIL A few weeks before the Kennedy assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald was photographed and followed in Mexico City. He’s quoted as saying that he plans on killing Kennedy. This information was passed along to the FBI by the head of the American Communist party.
oB0pA TIL The discovery of Kepler-186f confirms that Earth-size planets exist in the habitable zones of other stars and signals a significant step closer to finding a world similar to Earth
0wj1L TIL of Georg Konrad Morgen, an SS judge who prosecuted numerous fellow Nazis for various crimes such as corruption and murder, including those committed in the concentration camp system. After World War II, he testified at the Nuremberg trials against his former colleagues.
LQmvv TIL Stanley Kubrick was a stationery aficionado and made frequent trips to a stationery shop in St. Albans, UK, to "see if they had something new". Nobody ever recognised him.