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TIL that ancient Egyptian's tried to domesticate cheetahs as house pets, and also tamed them to be used for hunting.

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nAYb TIL that The Replacements (who were replacing The Pointer Sisters at the last minute as the SNL musical guest) smuggled booze and drugs backstage, got drunk with Harry Dean Stanton, broke a guitar on their way to perform, swore on-air, and were banned from returning to the show.
5N19 TIL Charles Darwin’s cousin Francis Galton invented the dog whistle, meteorology, forensic fingerprinting and mathematical correlation. He also suggested that principles of animal breeding could be applied to humans, coined the word ‘eugenics’, and came up with the 'nature vs nurture’ idea.
p85XQ TIL despite ancient Rome being one of the most powerful empires and using many modern financial techniques some of which are still being used today, Rome was a mainly agrarian economy with arelatively small GDP
Lk8eV TIL of Valentin Dikul. At 16, doctor's told him his legs won't work after sustaining a back injury. He taught himself rehabilitation, became a circus performer, and is now the head of rehab of MSK diseases in Russia. He is known for juggling his famous 80kg kettlebell
8BRK TIL the Hungarian national anthem, “Himnusz,” is an 8 verse lament about the sadness, despair, lost wars, corpses, and destroyed cities suffered by the Hungarian people because of their sinfulness.