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TIL that Maria Leijerstam rode a tricycle from the edge of Antarctica to the South Pole

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p8wDp TIL when Sun Ra played a gig at a mental hospital, it prompted a patient to talk for the first time in years. She got up in the middle of the set, stood next to him at the piano, and a few minutes later leaned over and almost screamed, "Do you call that music?!"
B4VD TIL that in 1913 the first practical thermal solar ‘power plant’ was built in Egypt, it generated power using polished steel to focus the sunlight. Unfortunatly WW1 broke out and the power plant was abandoned due to conflict in the area and oil became a much more attractive energy source.
Wkg8X TIL The nine-headed bird, also called the "Nine Phoenix", is one of the earliest forms of the Chinese phoenix, worshiped by ancient natives in Hubei Province. Due to the hostile relationship between the Kingdom of Chu and its former overlord, the nine-headed bird was demonised as a result
QJjwM TIL Bruce Lee died in the middle of making a movie called Game of Death
D1G6j TIL of the Buddhist concept of Anatta that states the non-existence of a permanent, unchanging Soul