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Today I Learned the word Man is gender neutral and the words Wifman and Werman were used for females and males respectively. Werman is where we get the word Were-Wolf from.

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Y9jd TIL a muscle of the hand, palmaris longus, is absent in 14% of the population. Some people can even have it in one hand and not in the other.
rRbdw TIL that, in order to make their 1958 doc “White Wilderness” more riveting, Disney filmed lemmings running around to give the impression that they were “migrating,” before throwing them into a river to drown. Disney then pieced together this footage, and thus the myth of lemming suicides was born.
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VV50 TIL: The Ottoman Turks unknowingly used the Rosetta Stone as a building slab for a military fort. The French captured the fort, and became fascinated with the stone, which unlocked the lost secrets of Ancient Egypt.
9YGym TIL that the Judean Date Palm was extinct until scientists germinated 2,000 year old seeds to bring the tree back into existence. The seeds were discovered in an ancient jar in Israel, dated between 155 BC to 64 AD.