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TIL that the people of an isolated tribe in Zimbabwe only have two toes. a.k.a the ostrich people

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D1NKv TIL 'God Save The Queen' by The Sex Pistols was set to be Number 1 in the UK Top 40 chart on the weekend of The Queen's Jubilee in 1977. The BBC and UK Charts Company fixed the sales and banned the song so that Rod Stewart would be number 1, denying the Sex Pistols the top spot.
E106V TIL Neil Armstrong resigned from NASA to take a teaching job, where he stayed for more than eight years—longer than his career as an astronaut. As part of a research group that included physician Henry Heimlich, he helped to design an artificial heart-lung system based on Apollo technology
grQPL TIL that Ant Wars are raging around the world between supercolonies of Argentine Ants. Near San Diego, they fight on piles of their dead brethren.
LkAMr TIL, entrepreneur Suzanne Ciani was the first female to have a voice on a pinball game, specifically Xenon, through a vocoder, and was even inducted into The Pinball Expo Hall of Fame in 2013 for that work of hers.
4XoyR TIL Japanese Doctor Fukushi Masaichi (1878-1956) was the worlds leading collector of body torn tattoos. He would offer prisoners money to be able to remove their skin after death. He had an immense collection.