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TIL that despite creating one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the ancient Greek sculptor Phidias remains largely unknown today.

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AgZa TIL to see a lunar rainbow or ‘moonbow’, the moon must not only be full, it also has to be less than 42 degrees in the sky, within 2 to 3 hours before sunrise, and of course, there must be rain falling exactly opposite the moon at that precise moment.
KOmN9 TIL the tradition of spraying champagne after winning a championship was started by Dan Gurney (Team Ford) after the 1967 Le Mans 24-hour race. A huge underdog, Gurney thought the "hard-fought victory needed something special" and spontaneously hosed down all gathered, including Henry Ford II
wo0OJ TIL of an experiment, in which white test subjects participated in the psychological ‘rubber hand illusion’ experiment but were given black arms instead of white ones. Doing this measurably reduced their implicit racial bias.
0dPbA TIL: The Trojan Ballistics Suit of Armor was a planned exoskeleton suit inspired by the MJOLNIR armor from the Halo series for Canadian soldiers featured on the Discovery Channel. Features included wrist sheaths and in suit morphine injections. The inventor died in a car crash before he finished it.
rNAZe TIL Alex Trebek nearly became a priest. In college, Trebek considered becoming a priest and went so far as to spend a summer at a Trappist monastery. But it was the vow of silence that changed his mind. He later said, “I’m not one to keep my big mouth shut.”