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TIL that Soviet Cosmonauts take shotguns to space to protect themselves from Siberian wilderness upon re-entry back to earth.

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YpoYP TIL people keep finding meticulously crafted hollow dodecahedrons throughout Europe dating back to the Roman Empire but historians have no idea what they're supposed to be used for as there's no historical record of them anywhere. Theories range from dice to knitting.
eQyJ TIL in 1994 Guns n Roses Bassist Duff McKagan bought $100,000 in stock in Microsoft, Amazon and Starbucks
9wQBr TIL that the first human death by a Southern Cassowary was in Australia in 1926, when the bird defeated two brothers who were trying to hunt it. The older brother was killed via his jugular vein being cut, and the younger brother was scared off after being knocked over.
lo5Qa TIL Bayard Rustin was told to move to the back of a bus, but stopped when a white child reached out to grab his tie, before being scolded by its mom. He thought, “I owe it to that child, that it should be educated to know that blacks do not want to sit in the back”. He was then arrested and beaten.
7al7 TIL if you add 37 to the number of chirps a cricket makes in 15 seconds, you will have an approximation for the temperature outside.