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TIL 1950s Rocker Little Richard died at age 87 of bone cancer in 2020. He had a near-fatal car accident in 1985, hip surgery confined him to a wheelchair in 2009, and declared he was done from performing in 2013

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rPYe TIL of “aerial reforestation” - a process whereby conical canisters which contain a seedling packed in soil and nutrients are dropped from a plane. They could drop as many as 100,000 saplings in a single flight. The system could plant as many as a million trees in one day.
OGMKL TIL that in Italy it’s considered rude to pour wine by gripping the body of the bottle, palm up. It’s called “the traitor’s way” because it’s how people in 15-16th centuries would covertly slip poison into the wine from a signet “poison ring”. The correct way is to hold the very end of the bottle.
lo6rV TIL The Ancient Greeks had 6 different distinct words for love. Eros, sexual passion or desire. Philia, deep friendship. Ludus, playful love. Agape, selfless love. Pragma, a long standing love. Philautia, love of the self.
rkro TIL Thomas Midgley Jr, inventor of CFC and leaded gasoline, who is regarded as having the greatest impact on the atmosphere of any single organism in history also accidentally strangled himself to death with his final invention.
XEv1E TIL that the word Luddite comes from the radical 19th century workers who destroyed textile machinery as a form of protest. Over time, the term has come to mean one opposed to industrialisation, automation, computerisation, or new technologies in general.