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TIL Big Bird was asked to go into space on the Challenger, but it was cancelled because he was too big

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Ood9X TIL about “dissimilation.” A linguistic phenomenon where people tend to drop an R if it is in the middle of a word and comes before another syllable that has an R. Ex.“suprise”/“surprise,”/“forward”“forward,” /“catepillar”/“caterpillar,” and “paticular”/“particular.”
OljY TIL that the only recorded instance of a cavalry capturing an enemy’s ships occurred in the unusually cold winter of 1795, when most of the waterways in Northern Europe froze over and the French cavalry were able to charge out onto a frozen port to capture the Dutch fleet stranded there
mxOMR TIL about "Grain entrapment", when a person becomes submerged in grain and gets stuck, often suffocating beneath the corn.
epd1k TIL that the rapper Puff Daddy co-headlined an AIDS fundraiser following a charity basketball game at the City College of New York with fellow rapper Heavy D that ended up getting oversold and resulted in a crowd crush that killed 9 people and injured 29.
n74d TIL that when you search “I want to kill myself” on google, or a related phrase, it will show the phone number for the national suicide prevention lifeline before the results.