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TIL Kenney Jones, the man who replaced Keith Moon in The Who, was with Moon during the last night of his life.

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pa8Q TIL: The cure for Scurvy was discovered in the 1490s, lost in the 1870s, and re-discovered in the 1930s.
woyxP TIL French sailor Narcisse Pelletier was abandoned in 1858 at the age of 14 on the Cape York Peninsula, in Australia. He was discovered and rescued by an Aboriginal family who adopted him and named him Amglo, for the next 17 years, until he was found by the crew of the John Bell in 1875.
vPEW7 TIL the 55-metre (180 ft) Lüneburg Water Tower was built in 1907 in a neo-Gothic style to fit in its urban environment in the middle of the old town, surrounded by medieval streets and churches.
O19X TIL that yaks actually can’t survive at altitudes below roughly 10,000 ft., because of their sensitivity to temperatures above 15° C
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