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TIL Weng Wenhao, the founder of modern Chinese geology and modern Chinese oil industry also served as President of China in 1948

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Vjlk TIL a 15 year old Roman Emperor named Heliogabalus, was a notorious prankster. He would get his party guests black out drunk and then dump them into a bedroom full of toothless leopards, lions and bears. He also created the 1st known ‘whoopee cushions’ using inflated animal bladders.
mx79Y TIL of Mack Ray Edwards, a serial killer who killed 6+ kids from 1953-1970 and buried their bodies in the highways he was helping construct. Some bodies still have not been uncovered.
oR9Kr TIL about Jimmy Robinson, a US Air Force Piloted that died (marked MIA officially) after damage sustained flying through the mushroom cloud of Ivy Mike, the first thermonuclear bomb detonation. The flight was to gather information regarding the composition of the cloud, his body was never found.
QN4DE TIL the fastest growing sport in America is pickleball, a hybrid racketball sport.
LQrrP TIL 50yrs ago the Arecibo Message was sent into space to communicate human existence to potential extraterrestrial life.