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TIL that the ancient Greeks believed in the existence of the Cyclops because they found a mammoth skull fossil

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o85A TIL in 2015 San Jose police stopped a man from committing suicide by sending him a pizza and phone for negotiating using a bomb disposal robot
pPEN TIL a man died from cracking his own neck
X01lR TIL: Dumbbells are named after silenced[dumb] bell towers that were used to practice ringing the heavy bells
7o5x TIL Dr. John Croghan bought Mammoth Cave 1839 and turned it into a tuberculosis hospital. It was a massive failure and Dr. Croghan died of Tuberculosis
VrK0 TIL that Caddyshack was improvised so much that the initial cut was about 4 ½ hours long (Bill Murray’s “Cinderella Story” monologue alone was over 30 minutes long), and had to be edited down.