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TIL that humanity almost wiped itself out 7000 years ago

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0YY1 TIL that Elon Musk believes that the United States is “[inarguably] the greatest country that has ever existed on Earth”, describing it as “the greatest force for good of any country that’s ever been” and believes outright that there “would not be democracy in the world if not for the United States”
NExM TIL that the awesome 3-D sound we had in ‘90s games used binaural technology, but new games can’t use it because of patent issues.
nB0W TIL The English vocabulary makes it very difficult to describe smells - we can only describe odors by comparing the smell to other things
KYEBa TIL: an Italian former porn star, Carlo Masi, quit porn to do research in applied mathematics, got his PhD, taught real analysis, became a professor, and then got sacked for being a former porn star. He sued and won against the university.
GAXLE TIL that in the early 1960s, Texas AM radio station KXOL in Fort Worth had among its staff future comedian George Carlin, future CBS reporter Bob Schieffer, and future Price is Right announcer Rod Roddy.