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TIL that Plato believed that love between friends encouraged a higher level of consciousness and intimacy than physical love, and should be more highly regarded (hence “platonic” relationships).

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JXOB TIL Jack Abernathy was known as “Catch-‘em-alive Jack” because he would catch wolves by jumping off a horse, shoving his hand in the wolf’s mouth so it was unable to bite down, and holding it down until it became docile. He performed this trick for Teddy Roosevelt during a hunt in Oklahoma in 1905.
R5xe1 TIL Engineers traded Grateful Dead set lists and discussed the setup of the band's concert speaker system on ARPANET, a precursor to the Internet. This led to tape trading over the File Transfer Protocol, and the Internet Archive began to add Grateful Dead shows in 1995.
9wOAp TIL The Cartoon X-Men theme was lifted from Hermeto Pascoal
j6yGj TIL not only does it snow in the Sahara desert, but snowfall in Sahara Desert is getting more frequent!
b9nD4 TIL When Queen Elizabeth delivers a speech in Parliament, a member of the House of Commons is kept hostage at Buckingham Palace. The hostage is released when the Queen safely returns.