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TIL There is no "Missing Link" in Human Evolution. The term "missing link" has fallen out of favor with biologists because it implies the evolutionary process is a linear phenomenon and that forms originate consecutively in a chain. Instead, the term Last Common Ancestor is preferred.

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5YvYD TIL Christine Chubbuck was an American television news reporter who was the first person to commit suicide live on television. Her death inspired the 1976 film Network.
g7B7 TIL in the 1920’s Soviet biologist Ilia Ivanov carried out a series of experiments to create human - ape hybrids. 5 Human women had volunteered to be inseminated with the sperm of Tarzan, a 26-year-old male orang-utan and to carry his babies.
yJJl TIL that 1389 people died at Tsar Nicholas II’s coronation party as people were trampled due to rumors that there wasn’t enough free beer and food.
WALB TIL that ‘art’ used to be an Olympic sport. Artists were award gold, silver and bronze medals for architecture, painting, sculpture, music and literature across multiple Summer Olympics in the early 20th Century. The 'arts’ were dropped from the Games because they drew too many professional artists.
R79x8 TIL that Laika the first dog in space went through a grueling death hours after the launch of the spaceship from overheating She had been strapped in with no space to move, had only one serving of food, and was under immense stress from being in there. This made me immensely sad.