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Til someone broke into the british museum of natural history to steal close to 300 exotic birds to sell the feathers to fly tiers so that he can buy a golden flute.

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5YMDQ TIL An instrumental version of the song "Sukiyaki", a story of a man who looks up and whistles while he is walking so that his tears will not fall, was played by NASA over the radio for the Gemini VII astronauts as mood music, thereby becoming one of the first pieces of music sent to humans in space
ZpDyB TIL Between June and December of 1982, E.T. The Extraterrestrial led the box office in 16 of the 25 weeks. Interspersed into the run were #1 movies like Porky’s, Conan, Wrath of Khan, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and An Officer and a Gentleman. E.T. kept returning as the family friendly favorite
gMoM4 TIL that sausages are older than the Bible. The oldest works of the Bible were written 3,400 years ago while the first-ever reference to sausages was in the 4,000 year old texts from Mesopotamia.
0ww1j TIL that Roman concrete, subject to marine corrosion, has stood for over 2000 years, while modern cement can break down in as few as 50 years. The concrete the Romans used contained volcanic ash and got stronger over time: the ash was slowly replaced with Al-tobermorite, a rare hydrothermal mineral.
8J74 TIL Researchers have identified a naturally occurring bacteria in the human gut that keeps people from developing food allergies. This beneficial gut bacteria diminished with frequent antibiotic use at a young age — making children more susceptible to food allergies later in life.