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TIL Gary Larson (Far Side cartoonist), has a species of chewing lice named after him, Strigiphilus Garylarsoni

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xa95 TIL Anwar Sadat of Egypt made peace with Israel in 1979, the first Arab nation to do so. For this, Sadat won the Nobel Peace prize, Egypt was suspended from the Arab League, and Sadat was assassinated.
BQor TIL there is a runway where you roll your airplane off a cliff and drop until you have enough airspeed to fly
YJZB Til: Dogs turn in circles before lying down because in the wild this turns long grass into a bed
loMea TIL Bruce Dickinson (lead singer of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden) and his then-solo band drove through the front lines of war in Sarajevo during the Bosnian war. They weren't protected and there were bullets flying around. They played a show for the people trapped in the city.
QJm7M TIL Dr. James Simpson, who first showed the effects of chloroform on humans in 1847. He sat with his assistants nightly trying chemicals. After they collapsed and came to after using chloroform, he recognized its anesthetic potential. He nicknamed the first baby delivered by chloroform "Anesthesia."