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TIL a group of stingrays is called a fever.

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4Xee5 TIL of an ancient city, Cahokia, which was settled circa 600 AD and by 1250 was bigger than London. The cultural heritage site is located 8 miles from the Gateway Arch, in Illinois. The city was made up of pyramids and large earthen mounds, and “Woodhenge,” which marked the soltices and equinoxes.
eQQ4 TIL Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon album was so popular, it had a German factory pressing nothing but that album 34 years after it was first released
9wRgQ TIL that in 1960, a B52 crashed during training. The navigator, thinking the plane was crashing, ejected without orders. The pilot, heard the ejection, thought the plane was breaking up, and ordered the crew to eject. The plane flew crewless for 50 miles before crashing.
m1Drp TIL that Christian Holmes IV, one of the vice-presidents of Enron, was coincidentally the father of Elizabeth Holmes (CEO of Theranos), who was convicted in 2022 over a massive case of fraud within Silicon Valley.
dXy8 TIL gonorrhea is nicknamed “The Clap” because of an old method for treatment, “that used to clear the blockage in the urethra from gonorrhea pus, where the penis would be ‘clapped’ on both sides at the same time.”