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dX0d TIL that the Eagles football team had a temporary court set up in their stadium for six years due to their fans bad behavior.
V984 TIL On August 31, 1986, five-year-old Levan Merritt fell into the gorilla enclosure and lost consciousness. Jambo stood guard over the boy when he was unconscious, placing himself between the boy and other gorillas in what ethologists analyze as a protective gesture.
JY5ZQ TIL pulse oximeters are calibrated for white skin; the darker your skin, the more likely the pulse ox will overestimate your oxygen level
nkp9 TIL that a “moment” is actually medieval unit of time that is equal to 1.5 minutes. There are 40 moments in an hour.
neY5Y TIL about Poncke Princen, a Dutch anti-Nazi fighter who was later sent to Indonesia to suppress an anticolonial rebellion. Princen, after witnessing Dutch war crimes, defected to fight with the guerrillas in 1948. He later helped expose the anticommunist massacres of Indonesian dictator Suharto.