TIL all humans share a common ancestor called "Mitochondrial Eve," who lived around 150,000-200,000 years ago in Africa. She is the most recent woman from whom all living humans today descend through their mother's side. Her mitochondrial DNA lineage is the only one to persist to modern times.
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Mitochondrial Eve
In human genetics, the Mitochondrial Eve (more technically known as the Mitochondrial-Most Recent Common Ancestor, shortened to mt-Eve or mt-MRCA) is the matrilineal most recent common ancestor (MRCA) of all living humans. In other words, she is defined as…
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TIL Giuseppe Ferlini, an Italian soldier turned treasure hunter, robbed and desecrated the pyramids of Meroë. Overall, he was responsible for the destruction of over 40 pyramids, some using explosives.
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Giuseppe Ferlini
19th-century Italian treasure hunter
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TIL the oldest known "Yo Mama" joke was found on a 3500 y.o. broken tablet in Iraq. And is missing the punchline.
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TIL there is a burger shop in Memphis, TN that is using 100+ year old grease to fry their hamburgers
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Southern Living
Dyer's Burgers and Their Century Old Grease Are a Thing of Memphis Legend
The story behind the iconic Memphis eatery and their 100 year old grease.
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TIL of Griscelli syndrome, a genetic change that causes silvery hair in newborns.
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Griscelli syndrome
autosomal recessive disease characterized by silvery gray sheen of the hair and hypopigmentation of the skin
TIL that Instead of toilet paper, Ancient Roman used a sponge on the end of a long stick that was shared by everyone in the community. This device was called a Tersorium. When not is use the stick stayed in a bucket of heavily salted seawater in the communial bathroom.
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Xylospongium
ancient Roman implement for lavatory cleaning (or, possibly, anal hygiene)
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TIL a group of pandas is called an "embarassment"
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ZME Science
What is a group of pandas called? It’s surprisingly complicated
Can we just go with 'a cuddle of pandas'?
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TIL that, in 1910, King Nicolas I of Montenegro ordered his male subjects to possess at least one "Gasser Pattern revolver", leading to these weapons becoming status symbols
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Gun Digest
The Revolvers of Montenegro
In certain regions of the world, the men were ordered to own one of these big-bore guns.
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TIL that in 1959, the CIA covertly accessed, disassembled, photographed, and reassembled a fully-operational Soviet lunar probe. When they were done, they returned the probe without the Soviets noticing.
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TIL the city of Island Park, Idaho claims to the have the longest Main Street in the world. The town is only 500 feet wide but 33 miles long. It was incorporated by business owner on Route 20 in 1947 to circumvent the state's liquor laws
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Island Park, Idaho
city in Fremont County, Idaho, United States
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TIL Adelle Hugo, Victor Hugo's daughter, developed schizophrenia in her mid 20's, she became obsessed with a soldier she had initialy rejected and left her home in Jersey to stalk him across all his millitary deployments in Ireland, Canada and finally the Island of Barbados
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Adèle Hugo
2nd daughter of Victor Hugo
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TIL Charles Schulz, creator of the comic strip Peanuts, continually hated his comic’s name throughout his life. Whenever he was asked what he did for a living, he avoided using the comic’s official name, and instead said, "I draw that comic strip with Snoopy in it, Charlie Brown and his dog".
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Peanuts
comic strip by Charles M. Schulz
TIL South Africa Was Banned From the Olympics For 32 Years Due to Apartheid
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Olympics.com
Why South Africa Was Barred From the Olympics | Olympic Channel
The policy of racial segregation - known as apartheid - meant South Africa was barred from taking part at the Olympics from 1964-1988. Find out why that happened and how the country was reintegrated back into the Olympic family.
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TIL Squashing doesn't prevent ants in the house. Ants come and collect the squashed ants if you leave them there and they get a free meal. Ants will rarely have five per cent of the colony outside of the colony at any time
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Vancouver Sun
How to get rid of ants from your Metro Vancouver house
You’ve got ants.
TIL that in 2000, a British Airway flight plunged 30,000 feet in one minute after a mentally ill man stormed the cockpit and took control. The pilots subdued the man at 5,000 feet and were able to land at a nearby airport with minor injuries.
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British Airways Flight 2069
attempted hijacking
TIL United airlines promised to help a blind woman off a plane once everyone had gotten off but they just left her there and the maintenance crew had to help her out
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CBC
Blind woman abandoned on airplane | CBC News
A blind woman from Vancouver Island is not sure she'll ever fly alone again after she was forgotten by flight attendants and locked in a deserted plane at Chicago's O'Hare Airport.
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TIL that the famous plane hijacker known as D. B. Cooper was jokingly asked by a flight attendant on duty during the hijacking if he would give her some of his ransom money. He happily offered her some, but she declined citing the airline's policy against accepting tips from passengers.
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D. B. Cooper
unidentified man who hijacked an airplane in 1971
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TIL, talk-show host Montel Williams, Jr. served 22 years in the Navy, worked as a cryptologist and retired as Lt. Commander.
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Montel Williams
American television host and actor
TIL that Harry Truman’s former vice president gave a speech ending with how he’d “rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty” before collapsing on stage and dying of a heart attack
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Alben W. Barkley
vice president of the United States from 1949 to 1953
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TIL that we will probably never discover many highly specialized dinosaur species because they lived in environments where they could not be preserved due to erosion, e.g. mountains
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Smithsonian Magazine
How Many Dinosaurs Remain Undiscovered?
Paleontologists say more non-avian dinos are waiting to be uncovered than have previously been found
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TIL that a video game was previously designed where one would play as Jack the Ripper brutally murdering prostitutes, except here these prostitutes would actually be vampires in disguise, thus making Jack the Ripper the hero in this game. This game was subsequently cancelled.
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Polygon
The Ripper: The disturbing Visceral Games project that never was
About 10 years ago, Electronic Arts developed and then canceled a game about Jack the Ripper. This is its story.