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TIL that the high five was invented by an openly gay athlete, and was a symbol of gay pride and identification.

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8a1Z TIL - The hotel which inspired Stephen King to write “The Shining” plays an r-rated version of the film on a continuous loop on Channel 42 in all its guest rooms.
lo1pK TIL a gannet named Nigel, was dubbed "the loneliest bird in the world" due to the absence of any other birds of his species on his island. Conservationists built fake concrete birds to attract more birds but Nigel ended up falling in love with one the decoys.
Aww TIL that carrier pigeons beat internet upload speed as late as in 2010. They actually sent pigeons over with USB sticks the same time they started uploading a video over broadband and the pigeons won.
mxJPP TIL around 2.5 billion years ago, the Oxygen Catastrophe occurred, where the first microbes producing oxygen using photosynthesis created so much free oxygen that it wiped out most organisms on the planet because they were used to living in minimal oxygenated conditions
xV4bw TIL the fastest RC flying machines are gliders that use a technique called 'Dynamic Soaring'. They can get up to 545 mph.