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TIL of Cosquer cave art: 27000 y.o. cave art accessible only through 175m long submerged tunnel with entrance 37m below sea level

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aAKN TIL: There is a method being tested to allow female same-sex couples to have children that are 100% biologically “theirs”.
PLdO TIL that in 2006, the RIAA successfully took down a community-generated collection of 34,000 guitar transcriptions that had been compiled over 14 years
AVxg TIL Mark David Chapman planned to kill David Bowie and had a front row seat (along with John & Yoko) for Bowie’s Broadway show the day after killing John
bd77 TIL a four year old boy named Bobby Dunbar went missing on a family trip, 8 months later he was found and reunited with his family. Nearly 100 years later, DNA proved that the child reunited with the Dunbar family was not Bobby but rather a boy named Charles Anderson
mYop TIL an “easy to learn, politically neutral” language called Esperanto was created in hopes that it’d bring nations together. There are about 20,000 fluent speakers ranging from Europe to Asia.