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TIL Every able-bodied resident of the Russian village of Tsovkra can tightrope walk. The tradition goes back more than 100 years and nobody is sure how it started.

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PY71g TIL that in 1990 there was only 1 full-time exorcist in the catholic church. Today there are several hundreds.
wpxY TIL Bill Gates has a trampoline room with a 20-foot ceiling in his house
6Epkm TIL that if Will Smith had accepted the role of Neo in the Matrix, then Morpheus probably would have been played by Val Kilmer
awxZb TIL the Apollo program was named after the Greek god of light, music, and the Sun, by NASA manager Abe Silverstein. Silverstein chose the name at home one evening, early in 1960, because he felt "Apollo riding his chariot across the Sun was appropriate to the grand scale of the proposed program."
XElAE TIL Gloria Ramirez died of cancer in the ER. Then 23 of the 37 staff became mysteriously ill which the hospital attributed to mass hysteria. An investigation concluded that Gloria's blood drawn and cooled in the ER broke down to dimethyl sulfate and vaporized, causing their illnesses.