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TIL Dolph Lundgren arrived at MIT, after earning a Master's in Chemical Engineering, with girlfriend Grace Jones on the back of his motorcycle

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Me0OW TIL that in 1657 Otto von Guericke, having pumped the air from two copper hemispheres, creating a vacuum, showed that two teams of horses could not pull apart "nothing at all."
ONy1 TIL of Foxes that can jump 3 feet in the air to dive 3 feet into snow to catch mice. They determine the speed and trajectory of the mouse before nose diving with pinpoint accuracy.
JDpj TIL Scientology has a child labor camp in the heart of Suburban Australia, where children are separated from their parents, and forced to work full time for no pay.
b95Nj TIL that back in Roman times they used to celebrate the new year in the month of the first harvest after winter, which was March. That makes March the first month of the year, and Sept Oct Nov and Dec indeed the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th months.
D1jAv TIL That Mike Row, the host of Dirty Jobs, was a former opera singer. This ended up landing him a job at QVC that he apparently got fired from 3 separate times.