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TIL the discoverer of the coelacanth, naturalist Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, had to fight with the taxi driver, the museum curator, the morgue director (it was summer), and the cold storage supervisor. Then the taxidermist botched the job, and the photo film fell into the mud and got destroyed.

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5VmGB TIL there have not yet been any major medical emergencies in space, but astronauts are trained to deal with them. ISS astronauts have developed a way to perform CPR in zero gravity by bracing their legs on the ceiling while pushing down on the patient on the floor below
vMy7 TIL David Bowie was so messed up on hard drugs especially cocaine that he could not recall making the album “Station to Station.” When asked about the studio he recorded in bowie stated “I know it was in LA because I’ve read it was”.
LkO4V TIL Dr. Seuss wrote Green eggs and ham on a dare to use less than 50 different words. Tomorrow’s his bday.
BoOW TIL that in the past, to treat an arrow wound cleanly, one would push the arrow through to the other side of the body
xVNQD TIL that South Korea has never postponed a general election, not even during the Korean War