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TIL Guns N' Roses lead guitarist Slash once walked in on his mom naked in bed with David Bowie

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YpoM7 TIL about the Great Dying, Earth's most severe known extinction event, which happened more than 250 million years ago. During this event, around 81% of all marine species and 70% of terrestrial vertebrate species became extinct.
Zoop Til that the first televised MMA fight occurred in 1963 when boxer Jim Beck offered $1,000 to any Judo practitioner (who he termed “Judo Bums”) that could beat a professional boxer. Gene Lebell took on the challenge, and won after choking out his opponent and leaving him unconscious for 20 minutes.
QNXrM TIL that narcissistic athletes perform better in high-stakes, highly competitive situations and worse in low-stakes situations. And non-narcissistic athletes perform worse in high-stakes situations.
6EDXX TIL that an artist set up an installation in a Namibian desert to play Toto's Africa for all eternity
VMam8 TIL that in 2009, Trevor Noah’s mother Patricia was shot by his stepfather Ngisaveni after she married another man. When confronting him over the phone about the incident, Trevor moved to the United States after Ngisaveni threatened to kill him.