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TIL that the oldest undisputed known depiction of a human being, the Venus of Hohle Fels, is about 40,000 years old, and made from mammoth ivory. It's on display in a museum in a small German town.

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kJpv1 TIL that if a wooden shop has been submerged in salt water for a long period of time, once brought to land and dried they can literal crumble into dust.
a400 TIL Ambercrombie burns its unsold clothes. They don’t donate them because it is a bad image for the company to have poor people wear them.
P1nAL Today I learned that cancers in areas like the brain and genitals can be treated using nuclear reactions.
woyxP TIL French sailor Narcisse Pelletier was abandoned in 1858 at the age of 14 on the Cape York Peninsula, in Australia. He was discovered and rescued by an Aboriginal family who adopted him and named him Amglo, for the next 17 years, until he was found by the crew of the John Bell in 1875.
LnMP TIL that WD-40 has never been patented as patenting would force them to disclose their recipe.