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TIL David Bowie ended the Ziggy Stardust Persona, and practically fired The Spiders from Mars on stage at their final performance in London’s Hammersmith Odeon on July 3rd, 1973. To the fans, and bands disbelief, “Not only is it the last show of the tour, but, it’s the last show we’ll ever do”.

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OoL4L TIL that recently declassified military documents revealed that a solar storm detonated U.S. navy mines during the Vietnam War. Scientists are urging governments to take space weather more seriously as it could have severe consequences on our Earth.
0Opv TIL that researchers did an analysis of the staggering amounts of benzoylecgonine (cocaine excretions in the urine) found in the Po River in Italy and determined the daily amount of cocaine being used by the people that fed into the river to be 8.8lbs.
JYOVl TIL It took 200,000 years for our human population to reach 1 billion—and only 200 years to reach 7 billion
9Ygkr TIL the earliest known list of games is one created by Guatama Buddha explicitly saying they were ones he would not play believing them to be a "cause for negligence." The list includes proto forms of hop scotch, pick-up sticks, and chess.
9YB9B TIL about Kit Musgrave, a Royal Navy officer who survived the torpedoing of three different British cruisers within one hour on one very bad day in 1914. He survived WW I. He re-enlisted in the Royal Navy in 1939 as Britain entered WW II. He again survived and lived another 50 years.