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TIL that a 14y/o cheerleader was hospitalized when a 55LB (25kg) frozen coyote carcass struck her in the head at basketball game (1976).

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AX74 TIL there’s a species of bacteria so resistant to radiation that scientists have nicknamed it “Conan the Bacterium”
RKJ7 TIL The names for domestic food animals while they’re alive, come from the lower class Anglo-Saxons who tended them, and the word for their meat come from the upper class Norman French who could afford to eat them.
ne049 TIL while scientists are unsure whether babies have dreams, those who think that they do claim that these dreams are "a collection of sensations", such as warmth or suckling on a breast.
wL0LE Today i learned about Great Zimbabwe, largest settlement ruins in sub-saharan Arica which also tradet with Arab-Indian states. When european colonists saw it, they claimed it was too complex to be of african origins, and ordered historians to dispute the evidence of its african history.
b6oD0 TIL the Danelectro eletric guitar company bought a surplus of women's lipstick tubes, put a bar magnet wrapped directly in copper wire in them, and made one of the most basic and cheapest pick-ups to date.