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TIL in 1490, the Ming Dynasty reportedly experienced a meteor shower so severe it resulted in a “rain of rocks”, killing several tens of thousands of people, according to some official sources

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Oo4g4 TIL in 1973, a Marine pilot took a base helicopter and three crew members without permission to assist New Orleans police officers in fighting a mass shooter atop a downtown building. His actions saved countless lives, and he retired as a Lt General in 1990.
neo5W TIL about the Winchester Mansion, a 161-room California monstrosity built by widower Sarah Winchester, who's husband had invented the Winchester rifle. She believed that spirits of those killed by his rifles were haunting her; so she added rooms, hallways, and passages to nowhere to appease them.
4XZp5 TIL If wasps decide they don't like you they drop pheromones on you so that other wasps don't like you either.
PYMYg TIL that the reason Elvis never toured outside of North America was because unknown to Elvis, his manager Colonel Parker was an illegal alien and he discouraged him from doing it because he was afraid that if he left the country with Elvis he would not be let back in.
R7vo9 TIL that NASA has confirmed that the earth is greener than it was 20 years ago due to China's and India's dominates heavy investments in re-plantation.