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TIL Patient “Zero” was a misunderstanding of patient “O”

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pY4dQ TIL: In 2008, Doritos held a competition to create a commercial to send to space. They sent "tribe" - where escaped Doritos worship a salsa jar (possible chip sacrifice involved) to Ursa Major for 6 hours using a space station in the Arctic Circle. 61% of those surveyed thought "its a start"
RwJ8 TIL Genghis Khan killed enough people to cool the earth, 40 million people were killed and vast areas of farmland were reclaimed by forests
NXGQE TIL :The The floating turd mystery that still haunts NASA
N6QM TIL Rickey Henderson was so proud of his $1,000,000 bonus check he framed it instead of cashing it.
oRB8A TIL about the 1642 execution of George Spencer in Connecticut. He was accused of beastiality after a sow had birthed a deformed one eyed piglet.