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TIL about the Younger Dryas Impact Theory, the idea that 12,800 years ago, the resulting impacts from a comet breaking up over earth's atmosphere would have struck glaciers and ice caps across the globe could have caused the great flood present in many ancient culture's stories/myths

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YPwP TIL Mr. Rogers’ car was stolen, only to have it return by the thieves with a note saying “If we’d known it was yours, we never would have taken it”.
kLy1 TIL that Mongols under the rule of Genghis Khan pulled the bowstrings of their bows back with their thumb instead of using a “Mediterranean draw” with three fingers, so to protect their thumbs, the Mongols invented a “thumb ring”
0woXy TIL of the Chinese Poet, Li Bai. Considered the greatest poet in Chinese literature, a good chunk of his poems are dedicated to alcohol and drunkeness due to his rampant alcoholism. Legend has that he drowned after drunkenly trying to embrace the moon's reflection upon the river during a ferry-ride
Z1Ao TIL that the last Kauaʻi ʻōʻō (now extinct) was male. It’s song was recorded in 1987. It was recorded singing a mating call, to a female that would never come. It died in 1987 as well.
AvGw TIL astronomer Carl Sagan was denied membership in the National Academy of Sciences, reportedly because his media activities made him unpopular with many other scientists.