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TIL Joey and Johnny Ramone did not speak to each other for most of the 22 years they were in the Ramones, after falling out over a woman who eventually married Johnny

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69XKw TIL about Ota Benga, an indigenous Mbuti who was featured at a 1904 human zoo (Louisiana Purchase Exposition). There he was kept, caged, with an orangutan as an attempt to ridicule Darwinism. He was given a bow and arrow so as to "enhance the primitive image".
kJl14 TIL: The British lost the cure for scurvy and had to rediscover it
b9Z1Z TIL that Colorado has 697 sides and is really not a rectangle
QJ6Y6 TIL Future unintentionally invented mumble rap in 2011 after he was too "high" to open his mouth while recording
0dmRv TIL that "Sky burial" is a practice where bodies are left on mountainsides for scavenger birds or natural decomposition, considered practical in high-altitude areas where the ground is too hard to dig.