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TIL 500,000 years ago people built a wooden structure in Southern Africa using adzing carpentry techniques

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8LK4 TIL a student designed a tool that caught the government and various corporations / organizations editing Wikipedia articles to reflect better upon themselves.
kZld TIL in 2009 a woman caused a riot at a Columbus, Ohio, Burlington Coat Factory after it became clear to customers, whom she had offered store-wide to purchase all orders up to $500 from her lottery winnings, that she had no money.
yJo8 TIL that Steve Jobs almost named the iMac Macman. This would have meant we would now be using Podmans, Padmans, and Phonemans.
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