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TIL From ancient Greeks and Romans to other cultures there was the belief of a tribe of one legged men with a giant foot. They used this foot to shade themselves from the sun and could jump at great speed.

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yQL4J TIL Yellowstone isn't actually overdue to erupt. Even if volcanoes were set on some kind of timer (which they're not), there have only been 3 recorded eruptions. This isn't enough for a reliable average. And even if it was, we would still be 100,000 years off.
VMAep TIL: 1856 a schoolmaster warned students not to harm his tame sparrow. One of the boys stepped on the bird and killed it. After lessons, the master took the boy into a private room and strangled him to death. The boy's father later went to the school and shot the schoolmaster dead.
dDlyr TIL Lantian "Jay" Graber, CEO of Bluesky, has a name that means "blue sky" in Mandarin Chinese. However, the resemblance to the project's name is purely coincidental, as Jack Dorsey chose "Bluesky" before she got involved.
5YwoB TIL Greg Ham, the flautist and founding member of the band Men at Work, died of an overdose following a bout of depression sustained from losing a plagiarism lawsuit from copyright trolls. His crime: using part of the children's nursery rhyme "Kookaburra" on his solo in the song "Down Under"
BgwgL TIL that scientists gave a bunch of coked up monkeys amphetamines to see if they would stop ‘choosing’ cocaine