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TIL that Axl Rose first heard the famous lines from Welcome to the Jungle (“DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE?” “YOU’RE IN THE JUNGLE, BABY!” “YOU’RE GONNA DIE!”) from an old guy in NYC when he hitchhiked there as a young man

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nbLW TIL that in 1938 China’s Nationalist government ordered the opening of dikes on the Yellow River to create a flood and slow the Japanese advance to Wuhan. While the advance was delayed, the flood also caused around 500,000 to 900,000 Chinese civilian deaths.
168p8 TIL what happened when the women of Towanda, Illinois were angry at their husbands for spending too much money on alcohol. They teamed up and attacked the local bar with hatchets. Each woman was fined $1.
WknoX TIL: Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine. In 1834, it was sold as a cure for an upset stomach by an Ohio physician named John Cook. It wasn’t popularized as a condiment until the late 19th century.
0dkeM TIL after two and a half hours of competing in the olympic high jump two athletes decided to share gold
167DW TIL Gregor Mendel's research into inheritance was largely ignored or misunderstood until Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns independently duplicated his works in 1900. Mendel's paper on plant hybridization had only been cited 3 times in the previous 35 years.