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TIL that the world's oldest known piece of chewing gum is over 5,700 years old and was made from birch bark tar.

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4xKJ TIL A species of cavefish in Thailand has been documented walking and climbing waterfalls in a manner similar to four-footed creatures such as salamanders, in a find researchers call “huge” in evolutionary terms.
AD9ma TIL about the proposed second bill of rights by Roosevelt that would include: medical care, a decent home, a good education, a job etc.
wLVGM TIL Sesame Workshop stopped the distribution of a successful Sundance short film called ‘Ernest and Bertram’ that portrayed Bert and Ernie being outed to the public as gay, resulting in Ernie committing suicide.
Me7Ka TIL during the Great Depression people often made clothes out of feed sacks. Seeing this, distributors started to print their feed sacks with different colours and patterns to help people remain at least somewhat fashionable.
dDxG7 TIL about the stylitism, a trend among early Christian monks who practiced asceticism by living atop a pillar. One stylite stayed atop his pillar for 54 years without ever coming down