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TIL that on this date in 1803 more than 3000 meteorites fell from the sky and impacted the Earth near a town in Normandy, France.

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QNRoM TIL that in 1967 during the Vietnam War, US Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock strapped a scope to a 50-caliber machine gun, using it like a rifle. He made a number of kills with this weapon in excess of 1,000 yards, including his record for the longest confirmed kill at 2,500 yards.
r0E1 TIL that a 1964 Olympic champion, Ewa Kłobukowska, failed the newly-introduced gender test before the European Cup in 1967 and was consequently banned from competing and stripped of her records; a year later, she gave birth to her first child.
neyaW TIL a study on cutting in lines found that one person cutting in line has a 54% chance that others in the line will object, and that this jumps to 91.3% when it’s 2 people cutting in line.
pYMVp TIL in 1987, during KNBC's Ch 4 News in LA, Gary Stollman got into NBC's Burbank Studios as a guest of a former employee and took David Horowitz hostage live on air. With a gun pressed to his side, Horowitz calmly read the gunman's statements about the CIA and mental health hospitals on camera.
N7VgN TIL Prince is the sole credit on his first album. He sang all the parts and played all the instruments, including acoustic and electric guitars, acoustic piano and Fender Rhodes piano, synth bass, various keyboard synths by Oberheim, Moog and Arp, orchestra bells, drums, percussion and bass guitar.