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TIL Dennis Rodman Was Pretty Much Kicked Out of N. Korea for Being Way Too Drunk

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16pwr TIL about Adelir Antônio de Carli, a Brazilian priest and skydiver who strapped himself to a chair with 1000 balloons to break a cluster-ballooning world record. Only the lower half of his body was ever recovered.
BggAb Today I learned about “Yu-Mex”music. A genre of music popular during the 1950s and 1960s in Yugoslavia which incorporated elements of traditional Mexican music. Yugoslavian musicians were known to don sombreros in their performances.
M7Q9A TIL: Pilot Charles Lindbergh invented the method we use for organ transplants with his close friend Alexis Carrel, who pioneered vascular suture techniques (used to create blood flow) based on his experience with lace creation and embroidery which we still use today.
R7N68 TIL that The Ivy League is an American athletic conference of the sports teams of 8 colleges, not a title given to these colleges on any academic basis
bRrQ TIL Otto Rahn was an SS officer in the 1930’s who was, homosexual, believed to be Jewish, fascinated with finding the Holy grail, and is described to be the inspiration for Indiana jones and the raiders of the lost ark.