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TIL that Malcolm X was declared mentally unfit for military service after telling draft board officials that he wanted to “steal us some guns, and kill us [some] crackers”.

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4XBXg TIL that after the death of Pope Julius II, (the militaristic "warrior pope" who emulated Caesar) the scholar Erasmus wrote a satirical dialogue in which the pope is denied entrance at the gates of heaven, ending with him planning to invade Paradise using the same tactics he applied when alive.
D00P TIL a study at Duke University showed that male rhesus macaques monkeys will give up privileges to be allowed to see a female monkey’s ass: “Virtually all [male] monkeys will give up juice to see female hindquarters … they really value the images.”
Ypn4r TIL that a live coelacanth (fish) was discovered in 1938 off the east coast of South Africa, 66 million years after it was believed to have gone extinct.
6Ej6Y TIL liposuction (a surgical procedure done to remove excess fat deposits from specific areas of the body) can cause thrombophlebitis (a condition that makes veins to be inflamed when a blood clot forms).
e0yVJ TIL that when Gemini XII's computer docking system failed, Buzz Aldrin calculated the docking trajectory using a slide-rule and a sextant.