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TIL "Dancing Plagues" occasionally broke out in the Middle Ages, where people could/would not stop dancing, occasionally even dying of exhaustion

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d8yYZ TIL a day before Elvis Presley died on 16 August 1977, Jerry Ehman of Ohio State University detected an unusually strong signal from space. Instead of the typical random numbers, there was a stream 30 times louder than the background buzz of deep space. Ehman was so amazed he wrote the word "wow!"
rR0wx TIL Emperor Taizu of Song invited all the general officers to a lavish banquet where he convinced them all to retire as military leaders in favour of a luxurious lifestyle. none of them refused his terms, and thus began a period of relative internal peace within the realm of the Song dynasty.
Wwo8 TIL that the technical name for the division sign (÷) is “Obelus”
p8WKO TIL about the Taylor oil spill which has been going on since 2004 leaking 300-700 barrels a day
6Ebmw TIL actor Joe Manganiello has been Dungeon Maser for a two-year Dungeons & Dragons campaign featuring Vince Vaughn, Tom Morello, D.B. Weiss & David Benioff, James Gunn, WWE's 'The Big Show' and more.