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TIL that the ancient akkadians believed that the clouds were the breast of the goddess antum and rain was her breast milk.

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grwA7 TIL 70% of roughly 100 human deaths by grizzlies have been by mothers defending cubs, whereas, there is no record of a black bear mother killing anyone in defense of cubs. Mothers with cubs were involved in 3 of the 61 killings by black bears across America since 1900, but not in defense of her cubs
OGEl6 Today I Learned: the soundtrack from Cover Orange came from a show called Fools Village
rr01 TIL that astrophysicist Carl Sagan and his wife would smuggle books about the history of the Russian Revolution into the USSR so that their colleagues could read them, since recorded history lessons in Russia were actively manipulated by Joseph Stalin at the time.
nbn7 TIL Nick Offerman (Ron Swanson in Parks & Rec) used his woodworking skills to build a wooden gazebo for the Japan House of his alma mater (Urbana-Champaign).
9Y756 TIL in North Korea, this year isn’t 2020; it is the year 108