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TIL that the Sentinelese, an uncontacted tribe (always attacking outsiders too close to the Sentinel Island), started to use arrows with metal tips rather than stone tips. It is believed that they have scavenged a ship that ran aground the island on 1981 and extracted its metal.

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awae9 TIL of Bartkira, a Simpsons version of the Akira manga drawn by hundreds of artists where all the original characters are replaced by Simpsons characters
wRZY TIL of Eduard Bloch the Jewish doctor of the Hitler family who treated Hitler’s mother before her death in 1907. Hitler granted him his “everlasting gratitude” and called him “noble Jew”. He was put under special protection by the Gestapo until he could move to America in 1940.
LlZ9 TIL that there is a law in the UK that states all documents must be inanimate objects, after the case of the live cow used as a cheque
j6kYp TIL a study involving 75K adults compared the participants' preferred sleep timing (known as chronotype) with their actual sleep behavior & found regardless of one's preferred bedtime, everyone benefitted from turning in early. Being up late is not good for your mental health (suggested 1am bedtime)
RGKa TIL: The presidential limousines in the last decade have their own ecosystem completely sealed from the outside in case of weapon, chemical attacks. They use heavy duty truck frames and use a diesel engine to lug 20k lbs. of steel and hidden weaponry. Two pints of president’s blood is also on hand.