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TIL: Now-extinct giant sloths dug burrows which still exist.

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ZaQo TIL that in 1990 the Galileo Spacecraft, in an experiment designed by Carl Sagen, passed by Earth to see if life could be detected from space. The answer? Barely, but yes.
GA6o1 TIL about Fosbury flop that changed the way the High Jump is being done since 1968 when Dick Fosbury won the Olympics thanks to his style of jumping.
L8ZV TIL a Bulgarian man once landed in a hospital after being hit by a car. Breath tests indicated blood-alcohol levels so high that police thought the equipment was broken, because he remained conscious and talked with them, 5 separate lab tests confirmed he had a blood-alcohol content of .914%.
wLoyE TIL of Suryash Dixit, who declared himself ruler of Bir Tawil, an unclaimed territory between Egypt and Sudan.
W7L8B TIL that, in 1805, Carl Friedrich Gauss had actually invented Fast Fourier Transform even before Fourier Transform itself but it was forgotten because he didn't publish it. It was re-invented about 160 years later by James Cooley & John Tukey, in a bid to detect nuclear bomb testing underground.