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TIL Conan O'Brien's first musical guest on his show was Radiohead playing "Creep".

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LkXeQ TIL that there are species of mushrooms that feed off of gamma radiation, and some are blooming in Chernobyl, “eating” the radiation.
yQaRJ TIL about Rosie Ruiz, a woman who won the Boston Marathon in 1980. It turns out, she cheated and simply hopped in a cab and only pretended to run the race. She hopped out 1/2 of a mile away and jogged to her trophy(which was subsequently taken away 8 days later).
yQxYe TIL The earliest recorded epidemic dates back to the Peloponnesian War, 430 BC. he ancient Greek historian Thucydides described the symptoms of a disease believed to be typhoid fever. Known as the Great Athenian Plague, it killed about 100,000 people, or two-thirds of the population there.
BgXLD TIL "All Quiet on the Western Front" was banned in Nazi Germany because it protrayed the fultility of war (during WWI) and was deemed counterproductive to the German rearmament program prior to WWII.
0KYj TIL that the word oxymoron is an oxymoron itself. It is made up of oxy, meaning sharp, and moron, which means dull.