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TIL that, prior to Jaws (1975) and Star Wars (1977), summers were considered the “graveyard season” for movie releases

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RkKj TIL in 1251 the king kept a polar bear in the Tower of London, which “attracted a great deal of attention from Londoners when it went fishing in the Thames”
dNvQ TIL that during the Fukushima nuclear disaster, more than 200 retirees volunteered to replace younger workers at the facility. The volunteer group figures they have less than 20 years to live and will be dead before any radiation induced cancer develops.
mxgOp TIL about the Zambian Space Program of the 1960’s whose goal was going to Mars with a “Spacegirl”, two cats, and a Christian missionary.
VBwaQ TIL about Adam Rainer, the only person in recorded history to have been both a dwarf and a giant.
YplOP TIL that The Great Sphinx of Giza is the oldest monumental sculpture in human history!