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TIL for 3 decades legendary female pro wrestler The Fabulous Moolah effectively controlled most of the female wrestling in the US, would allegedly sexually and financially exploit the women she managed, and sabotaged any female wrestler who could pose the threat of taking her place professionally.

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awbOo TIL: Bigfoot was created as a silly unplanned joke by Raymond L. Wallace in a Northern California logging camp in 1958. He used carved wooden feet to stomp the tracks of over-sized footprints. Even though his family have shed light on the prank lots of people still believe in Bigfoot's existence.
0vAL TIL Finnur Magnusson identified cracks in a rock as Runes and stated that they made up an epic poem about Harald Wartooth, for victory against the Swedish king Sigurd Ring at the Battle of Brávellir. Turns out he was 100% wrong, they were just naturally formed cracks and he looked quite the fool.
oBgp8 TIL Rage Against The Machines first live performance was October 23, 1991 at Cal State Northridge. Still one of the greatest rock bands ever.
R5gPj TIL I learned test pilot Alvin “Tex” Johnston did a barrel roll of a prototype Boeing 707 - unauthorized - in front of a crowd of 250,000 people at the 1955 Sea Fair hydroplane races. He flew the plane upside down, and then did a final barrel roll. He was not fired the next day, but it was close.
9wwJQ TIL about a blind Bulgarian mystic called Baba Vanga who passed away in 1996 but who left behind predictions for every year until 5079, at which point she believed the universe would cease to exist.