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TIL Herschel Walker was a Heisman winning running back, member of an Olympic bob sled team, ballet performer, professional mixed martial artist, successful businessman, and almost predictably suffers from multiple personality disorder.

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4k1PJ TIL pilot error is a leading cause of airplane crashes. In 2004, it was cited as the primary reason for 78.6% of disastrous general aviation accidents. Some causes are fatigue, faulty memory, and poor interpersonal communication. Using checklists has reduced risks over time.
0wBNA TIL that unlike chimpanzees, bonobo societies are relatively peaceful, with squabbles rarely escalating to serious violence. Female bonobos spend their time together in the center of the group, grooming, eating and socializing. Often, two females will embrace and rub their genitals together
PvyG Today I learned about the Mobile Bay Jubilee, a recurring natural phenomenon found in only one spot on the whole world. Roughly once a year, thousands of crab, shrimp, eels and fish will leave deeper waters to swarm onto the shallower coastal waters, due to oxygen suffocation
4kXVo TIL about the Sea Dragon, a fully conceived rocket design that would have launched from the ocean and was designed to put 550 tonnes into low Earth orbit.
oBA1R TIL that more than two decades before his house arrest for his sympathetic treatment of the Tiananmen Square protestors, former CCP General Secretary Zhao Ziyang was removed from his official positions and paraded through Guangzhou in a dunce cap.