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TIL: Astronauts who come back from the moon have to go through customs

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e0YR6 TIL that while bulking up on raw salmon, grizzly bears often become infected by tapeworms and expel them before hibernation, causing them to walk around with very long “tapeworms tails” coming out of their butts.
yQdpp TIL that on October 6, 1909, Vancouver revealed its first Auto Ambulance and was taken on a test drive, when it ran over and almost instantly killed a wealthy man from Austin, Texas. Ironically, this man was the first person the ambulance picked up.
ayPZ TIL there was a Women’s Strike of 1975 in Iceland. 90% of women stopped working, cooking, and caring for children, and the entire country ground to a halt.
7J8Z TIL that there is no evidence that Pythagoras worked on or proved the Pythagorean theorem, or, for that matter, any mathematical problems at all.
yVyZM TIL: Marilyn Monroe was the first cover star of Playboy in 1953