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TIL about Babi an Egyptian baboon God who would use his massive erection as a mast on a sailboat taking people into the Afterlife

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woEpJ TIL gamer means defender in Teutonic language, so fellow gamers, y'all a bunch of fellow defenders :p Found it while trying to figure out baby names.
wxMo TIL that in 2013, a researcher at UW managed the first human to human brain interface through the Internet by wearing a cap and playing a video game. When he wanted to shoot a missile, he thought “fire” and another researcher across campus’s finger moved involuntarily and pressed the fire button.
0wBwR TIL of Squirrel Girl, a Marvel superhero who has a furry tail, lips that tastes like hazelnuts, and has "nutsacks" -- a utility belt with nuts for her squirrel friends.
nevvb TIL Two thousand and ten years ago, Roman Emperor Augustus banished Ovid to the island of Tomis, where he stayed for the rest of his life. Rome's city council formally revoked his banishment in December 2017
dVEQ TIL There was a book written about an ‘unsinkable’, ~800 foot cruiseliner ship, that hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic on an April night, didn’t have enough lifeboats, and killed most of it’s passengers. Ship was called 'The Titan’. The book was written in 1898… 14 years before the Titanic sank