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TIL: Neanderthals were distilling tar 200 thousand years ago in Europe

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8GNP TIL Data for the 1890 US Census was entered on punchcards & was processed by an electromechanical tabulating machine designed/built by the company known today as IBM; it took six weeks to release the results as opposed to the 1880 census, which took seven years.
vxdj TIL about Freeze Branding, to alter the hair folicle of an animal and make the hair grow back white. If the animal is white, they keep the brand longer so the area remains bald.
65Kl TIL when Jay Z was 12 he shot his older brother for stealing his ring for drug money.
A9Xa TIL in 2005, a woman performing her first solo skydive jump survived a parachute malfunction which caused her to slam face first into a parking lot at 50 MPH. During surgery doctors discovered she was pregnant. She made a full recovery and the baby was fine.
p8M5p TIL that figs are pollinated by wasps that die inside the fig. Actually I learned this a month ago and have looked inside every fig I’ve eaten since, in the hopes of finding a dead wasp or wasp parts. No luck yet.