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TIL Steve Erwin has an asteroid named after him: 57567 Crikey

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0dGr5 TIL the line “Brian Wilson is a genius” gained popularity in 1966 when the Beach Boys’ publicist Derek Taylor started calling Brian Wilson a "genius" as part of an effort to rebrand the Beach Boys and legitimize Wilson as a serious artist on par with the Beatles and Bob Dylan.
Y7R5d TIL that 47% of all internet traffic came from bots in 2022
QgLp TIL archaeologists could determine the Lewis and Clark trail because their use of mercury laxatives left a trail of heavy metals along the way.
MeVAB TIL that Michael Phelps has more Summer Olympic gold medals than 80% of countries in history even when taking into account countries that no longer exist.
GY8w7 TIL Britain prepared secret ‘Auxiliary Units’ tasked with guerrilla activities in case of a full scale invasion and would operate behind enemy lines to cause as much destruction as possible to German forces and had survival rates of just 12 days if activated and lived underground.