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TIL; We use obsidian today to make precision surgical tools many times sharper than steel.

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Wkjw4 TIL that in the most well-known ranking of the world's top airlines, airlines from Indonesia (Garuda Indonesia), Russia (Aeroflot), the Philippines (Philippine Airlines), and multiple low-cost airlines (AirAsia, easyJet), are ranked ahead of the highest-ranked American airline
9976 TIL That there is a Stonehenge like structure at the bottom of Lake Michigan with a possible Petroglyph of a Mastodon on one of the boulders.
wd9E TIL porcupines have natural antibiotics in their skin, and are the only mammals native to North America to have such protection.
Lkkm9 TIL in January 2011, a homemade catapult was discovered that was used to smuggle marijuana into the United States from Mexico. The machine was found 20 feet from the border fence with 4.4 pounds (2.0 kg) bales of cannabis ready to launch.
1v4V TIL that female ferrets, once in heat, will die if they don’t get laid. High oestrogen and no mating results in damaged bone marrow, lack of blood cells and eventual death.