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TIL Jonathan Goldsmith, AKA The Most Interesting Man in the World from the Dos Equis commercials, has been an advocate for landmine victim support, has assisted the effort to prevent and cure cancer in dogs, save the Siberian Tiger, and end child sex trafficking in Cambodia.

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Bgwak TIL that the origin of Halloween lies in in Celtic culture. It can be traced back 1000s of years to a cross-quarter day in the Celtic calendar that is halfway between the autumn equinox and the winter solstice. So when Irish people emigrated to North America, they took their tradition with them.
6EaAm TIL that despite its popular depictions, the 5 stages of grief is considered to be an outdated theory.
R7m4Q TIL that to design a spacesuit that would let astronauts walk on the moon, NASA's engineers studied Henry VIII's (1491-1547) armor as a mix of protection and mobility. In thanks, NASA sent a replica Apollo suit to London to be photographed next to Henry's armor.
KOd0G TIL that there is an Island off of Scotland where wallabies have happily inhabited and adapted to the climate there since the 1940s
yQ5Ve TIL Clement Wragge, an Australian forecaster, was the first to give actual names to tropical storms and hurricanes . When the Australian government refused to acknowledge his system, he started naming the hurricanes after the the politicians he disliked or those that wouldn’t support him.