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TIL social psychologist Stanley Milgram found randomly selected Mid-westerners could deliver a package to a Divinity Student in Boston via personal connections in an average of 5.9 steps (i.e. 6 degrees)

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XEPnX TIL After Czech gymnast Věra Čáslavská lost her training facility due to the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia, she trained for the 1968 Olympics in the forest using potato sacks as weights and logs as beams. She medaled in all six events, four of them Gold.
dONB TIL Coca-Cola made a vending machine exclusive to India and Pakistan called a “Small World Machine” where users in opposite countries are rewarded with a drink for cooperating with each other
R5gG8 TIL That some people are unable to burp or have gurgle burps due to a disorder called R-CPD
N7M16 TIL I learned that the only Brown Panda in the world was abandoned by his mother at two months old, and was bullied by other pandas. Now has his own care-taker in Foping Panda Valley in China.
XjbX TIL the Alferd G. Packer Memorial Grill in the cafeteria of UC Boulder is named after an infamous cannibal who ate his five companions during their journey across the Rockies in 1874. Their slogan is, “Have a friend for lunch!”.