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8GrL TIL that six soviet cosmonauts, while working in space on the MIR station, reported to mission control all six of them were seeing aliens with human faces and large wings. Pravda confirmed the report and said that it was a group hallucination.
xDVo TIL that MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) was done at the ancient Olympics. It is called Pankration and is the only event that wasn’t reinstated with the creation of the modern Olympics.
j6JNv Today I learned about moondog, an early adopter of musical minimalism.
JYQDk TIL That John Snow, who found the cause of cholera during the height of an epidemic, proved his findings by halting an entire outbreak through one action- removing the infected water pump handle.
XExxQ TIL about Tyke the elephant. She was abused by her trainers and ultimately snapped during a live circus in Honolulu, HI. She killed her trainer and was inevitably shot 87 times to death on the street after a horrific rampage in the City.