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TIL About Elspeth Beard: the first Englishwoman to ride a motorcycle around the world.

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X0JjX TIL Nintendo characters Mario, Kirby, and Zelda were all named after real people.
9Vxm TIL MI6 hacked an al-Qaeda website and replaced it’s bomb-making instructions with a cupcake recipe.
16QAV TIL The Triangle of Death in Italy is one of the most toxic sites in the world. This area contains the largest illegal waste dump in Europe due to a waste management crisis in the 1990s and 2000s, and surrounding residents have already experienced a significant increase in cancer rates.
69dAJ TIL Giant Technicolor Squirrels Actually Roam the Forests of Southern India
yVjNe TIL about the artist August Natterer, who suffered from Schizophrenia, On 1 April 1907, he had a hallucination of the Last Judgment, in which he saw "10,000 images [flash by] in half an hour." He then spent his life creating art from the images he saw, under the pseudonym 'Neter'.