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TIL many Neanderthal skeletons show signs of broken bones and other traumas in patterns very similar to that of rodeo riders, suggesting Neanderthal hunting involved quite a lot of close-quarters contact with large and savage animals.

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wLpp8 TIL of the Dyatlov Pass Incident, where 9 students were found dead under strange circumstances that couldn't be explained. One had no eyes, almost none had their shoes on, and were severely under-dressed.
JYv8k TIL the movie "Baby Driver" was first imagined when director Edgar Wright heard the song "Bellbottoms" and imagined a getaway driver waiting for his crew to complete a bank heist. He tested the concept while directing the music video for "Blue Song" by Mint Royal in 2003, almost 15 years earlier.
R7NVw TIL that an Escher sentence is a comparative sentence that seems to make sense but doesn't on closer inspection: "more people have been to Russia than I have"
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LkKVZ TIL that 119 years ago, Teddy Roosevelt "shocked the nation" by inviting a black man to have dinner with him at the White House. That man was Booker T Washington and that dinner almost got him killed.