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TIL that there is an annual World Dog Surfing Championships
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nW4gG
TIL South America's Inca civilization was better at skull surgery than Civil War doctors
Ly59
TIL The 1993 World Trade Center bombing was the result of an FBI sting operation. FBI agents secretly supplied informant Emad Salem with bomb making materials. Despite being assured by the FBI that the real bomb was replaced with a fake, the attack was successfully carried out.
Mjmb
TIL the story that NASA spent $1 million on a space pen while the soviets simply used a pencil is false. The pen was developed by a private company without any taxpayer dollars and NASA simply became a client afterwards.
6xkw
TIl that Alboin, King of the Lombards took his wife Rosamund as a spoil of war after he killed her father in War. At one point he made her drink from her father’s skull, which he kept as a trophy and fashioned into a mug, telling her to “drink merrily with your father.” She had him assassinated.
n80Y
TIL only one white man has ever run 100 meters in under 10 seconds. The other 75 men who have done it were all black.