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TIL Angus Young, the lead guitarist, and co-founder of AC/DC is a teetotaller!

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ZpeXa TIL that the Haast's Eagle, the largest known eagle weighing 10-18kg with a wingspan of 2.5-3m, went extinct in the 15th century, 200 years after the Maori arrived. Their main prey was the Moa, a large flightless bird.
0dW0A TIL that firefighters in Denver need to pass a polygraph test or be disqualified from the testing process
W7XGN TIL Underwater exploration was disallowed in Guanabara Bay by the Brazilian government after an Ancient Roman shipwreck was reportedly found that preceded Columbus
9Yd1Q TIL that there are some pubs in England that are over 1000 years old.
1aDLX TIL when skyscrapers were still in its infancy, a stunt performance called "the Human Fly" became extremely popular across North America, which was when someone (usually with a blindfold) would scale/climb the building without a net, becoming the influence for "wall-crawler" Spider-Man decades later