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TIL that there is a conspiracy theory that argues the “Dark Ages” never actually happened

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M7Kb7 Today I learned that Harold Holt - Australian prime minister best known for going missing after a swim - was dating a girl called Viola Thring until his father came along and married her instead
woOjP TIL there was a Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes in Nova Scotia 22 years before the NHL. The slap shot and goalie butterfly technique originated there. Read more - "Black Ice: The Lost History Of The Colored Hockey League Of The Maritimes 1895-1925," by historians George and Darrill Fosty
Lg1Z TIL during the 2009 elections Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of NYC, changed long standing state laws just so he could serve a 3rd term.
OoDO4 TIL: Astronauts left their poop on the moon. They threw out the garbage thinking everything would be sanitized by the solar radiation. Scientists don't know if the microbes in the feces are still alive, but future moon missions will investigate that.
dDRLr TIL John Paul Scott is the only person to have escaped the infamous Alcatraz Penitentiary by fashioning water wings from rubber gloves. Scott made it to the San Francisco shore but suffered from hypothermia and exhaustion, and he was recaptured by military police the following morning.