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TIL Neanderthals built houses out of mammoth bones.

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1a6x7 TIL North and South Korea aren't unusual for the Korean Peninsula. From 698–926 CE, the Peninsula was divided into a Northern State (Balhae) and Southern State (Silla)
VRG8 TIL of Thiess of Kaltenbrun, a man accused of being a werewolf, who escaped death by fire in 1692 by claiming that he was sent by God to fight the devil and his witches
kJ4Xe TIL that in 1957 the US launched Project Pluto, a plan to design and build a "doomsday" cruise missile (SLAM) that would be nuclear powered and carry multiple hydrogen bombs, spreading radiation along its path from the engine. It was loud enough to kill people in its path with sound.
loel5 TIL The word "piggyback" is just a screwed up play on "pick pack" --> "pick-a-back," which makes infinitely more sense than "piggyback."
N7v7N TIL that a group of reporters submitted a computer generated fake 'research' paper to a scientific journal... and it was published.