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TIL THE KEY TO BECOME MENTALLY STRONGER: Motivational video 2020

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XEZ4r TIL After his moon landing, Neil Armstrong was put in quarantine for several weeks. Scientists were afraid that he may have picked up a foreign bacteria while he was in space. He spent the majority of that quarantine time playing his ukulele.
7Xgb TIL Actors are referred as Thespians out of respect for Thespis, the first known actor in written plays.
R7L06 TIL that Fidel Castro established concentration camps for gay people because he considered homosexuality as inherently counterrevolutionary and as bourgeois decadence
Z80vp TIL that an Australian bird, called the rainbow lorikeet, routinely gets drunk from spring to summer. The small birds drink the fermented crimson flower nectar from the Weeping Boer-bean tree. When intoxicated these birds make loud drunken noises which many people find bothersome.
awav0 TIL the famous philosopher Voltaire's name is actually a pseudonym that has roots in the French phrase "determined little thing"; acting more like a modern avatar or screen-name.