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TIL Coyotes run faster than Roadrunners.

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7r7GM TIL about Janet Parker, the last person on record to die of smallpox. In 1978, Parker worked above a U.K. research laboratory conducting experiments with the pathogen. Today smallpox is officially held at only two places in the world, the CDC in the U.S. and the Vector Institute in Russia.
Z66a TIL the first same sex couple in History were 2 manicurists to the Pharaoh, Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum. They are depicted facing each other and embracing in their joint tomb with inscriptions reading “joined in life and joined in death”
JLLm TIL that in 2008 “Due to a technical error” wine replaced water in dozens of homes during the Italian grape festival in Marino, Italy.
m1glO TIL that we have discovered only two interstellar objects that have passed through our solar system.
R7YZ6 TIL: The man that stopped the tanks in Tiananmen Square walked away without getting hurt.