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TIL: Dancer Isadora Duncan was strangled in Nice, France, when the enormous silk scarf she was wearing got tangled in the rear hubcaps of her open car in 1927.

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GApv4 TIL Medicine in ancient Rome was highly influenced by ancient Greek medicine, but also developed new practices through knowledge of the Hippocratic Corpus combined with use of the treatment of diet, regimen, along with surgical procedures.
OoR5g TIL that more than 95% of all stars which will ever exist have already been born. Star formation is now 30 times lower than at its peak 11 billion years ago.
Al6a TIL Nike trademarked the color maize, so the University of Michigan now wears “sun” and blue instead of their historic maize and blue.
oBmPE TIL Despite all the "Florida Man..." headlines, Florida doesn't necessarily have more weird people doing weird things than other states. They just have strong Sunshine Laws that make it super easy for journalists to mine records like police reports in order to write those stories.
gMbn7 TIL that last year astronauts found a rock from Earth on the Moon which is believed to be 4 billion years old.