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TIL that Mick Jagger and David Bowie had an affair (according to Bowie's first wife, among others)

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OGJ16 TIL that tie dye is very old and was independently created in China, Japan, pre Colombian Peru, and India almost two thousand years ago
9VeQ TIL that Alan Turing dabbled in embryology, proposing the existence of molecules called morphogens that diffuse within embryos and control how they develop; the people who confirmed his proposal won a Nobel Prize.
4Z4J TIL that when the Greek ships reached the beach of Troy, no one would jump ashore, since there was a prophecy that the first Greek to jump on Trojan soil would die. Odysseus tossed his shield on the shore and jumped on his shield so the person who was tricked into following him would die instead
YnP TIL that Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined
QNDxd TIL only 12 people have walked on the moon, all within 4 years of each other and not for 52 years