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TIL of Mills Darden whose confirmed height was 7’6 (229 cm) and weighed around 860-1,020 lbs (390 to 460 kg). He was capable of tossing 500-pound (230 kg) piles of hay with ease and single-handedly carried 12 feed sacks (1200lb, 544kg, 85 stone) over 1.2 miles (1.9 km).

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W76OY TIL that the earliest refutation of UFOs was written in the 9th century by Agobard of Lyon, who wrote against the claims of peasants that ‘sky sailors’ were coming to steal their crops in his treatise ‘On Hail and Thunder’
Ao7B TIL- Of the Carlsberg Social Experiment, where a hidden camera observed the reactions of couples walking into a cinema with only 2 free seats remaining, and all the other 148 seats already filled by badass bikers.
10vX TIL when brought before McCarthy’s ‘House Committee on Un-American Activities’ communist investigation, Ronald Reagan, then president of the Screen Actors Guild, named names when asked about actors in his union who could be 'communist sympathizers’. This resulted in his first wife divorcing him.
p6rG TIL Sybil Ludington was a heroine of the American Revolutionary War, famous for her night ride on April 26, 1777 to alert American forces to the approach of the British, similar to the ride of Paul Revere. She rode more than twice the distance of Revere, alone, and was 16 years old at the time.
VMNW8 TIL that Peter Gabriel intended for the 1986 song "In Your Eyes" to be the last track on his album "So", but due to the prominent bass line and the limitations of vinyl records, it had to be placed earlier on the record. This was rectified on the CD release of the album.