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TIL serious anthropologist Morris Freilich researched the famous fearlessness of Mohawks in skyscraper construction by getting drunk with them at their favorite bar, until they admitted that running and dancing on high exposed steel was just for show, and they were scared shitless the whole time.

4XdXo TIL about the Peshtigo fire the deadliest wildfire in US history that killed around 1500 people. It's almost unknown because the more famous Great Chicago Fire happened on the same day.
4k9Mb TIL the largest man-made beach is 26 miles long.
wopE8 TIL that the pope can't be an organ donor
p8w1A TIL a bald eagle somehow made its way to Ireland in 1987 and was so tired that it had to be returned via airplane.
xVrVb TIL a moustache is a beard