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TIL a 42,000 year old foal was found entombed and in great condition in permafrost. It is "the best-preserved Ice Age animal ever found in the world,” according to Grigoryev, head of the Mammoth Museum in Yakutsk.

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Z8xR4 TIL of Brian Spencer, a former NHL hockey player who's father, upon hearing his son was starting in his first game, held a Canadian TV station hostage and forced them to broadcast it, before being shot and killed. After his career, Brian too was shot & killed during a robbery after buying crack.
5ZY8 TIL in 1952, Wernher von Braun wrote a book called “Project Mars” which imagined that human colonists on Mars would be led by a person called “Elon”
9YyZm TIL: Cynthia Moon is rumored to have yelled "No siree, Bob!" before leaving General Burnside at the alter. Later Burnside would put her and her family under house arrest for spying for the Confederacy
4kNKw TIL that the Block of Marble which later turned into the Statue of David by Michelangelo, had a past of Rejection by other sculptors before its making.
epD1k TIL that King's School, Canterbury, is Britain's oldest public school; and is arguably the oldest continuously operating school in the world, since education on the Abbey and Cathedral grounds has been uninterrupted since AD 597.