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TIL Wombat Poop is Cube-Shaped

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5OdR TIL that in 1964 Zambia tried beating the US and the USSR in the space race. They used swings for zero gravity and rolling down a hill in barrels for turbulence training and a catapult to launch the 1,8mx3m rocket to the moon. The afronaut crew consisted of 10 Zambians, one 17y old girl and her cat.
P10ne TIL that when Jose Alfredo Jimenez, the best songwriter that Mexico has had, knew he was going to die, he wrote the song "Gracias" and sang it to his public despite suffering from cirrhosis.
OolnX TIL the reason some people get sick when they read in the car is because your ear and your eyes disagree about whether or not you're moving.
ADx17 TIL of Antonio Paoli, a Puerto Rican tenor considered one of the most outstanding opera singers of all time. During WWI, when all opera houses closed, he lost his voice and became a profession boxer (5-1), retiring after breaking his wrist. He retrained and gained his voice back after the war.
1aRr8 TIL that a bunch of people actually thought Stephen Spielberg actually shot and killed a triceratops.