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TIL Zoroastrianism's emphasis on the protection and veneration of nature and its elements makes the religion "world's first proponent of ecology."

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YKEA TIL: Two women bet a Russian man that he couldn’t have sex with both of them for 12 hours straight. He won the bet and then died from a heart attack immediately after.
9wAp TIL on October 21, 1978, a 20yo Australian pilot flying over the Bass Straight reported an aircraft flying 1,000ft above him. His last transmission to ATC was “it is hovering and it’s not an aircraft”. No trace of the pilot or his aircraft have been seen since.
j6wBv TIL that despite it being one of her best known songs, Doris Day hated performing "Que Sera, Sera", calling it "a kiddie song" and considered it inappropriate for the film it was written for, The Man Who Knew Too Much (which is about a kidnapped child). She eventually refused to ever sing it again.
vP877 TIL about kopi luwak, an expensive coffee which is made of coffee beans that have been pooped out by an animal called a civet.
j6wVM TIL that Christopher Lloyd played Uncle Fester in the Addams Family in 1991 and 1993