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TIL The word "Whiskey" derived from the Old Irish and Scottish and means "Water of life".

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XEDlj TIL that on December 28, 1973, after having worked for 16 hours a day without breaks for six weeks, the crew of the Skylab space station mutineed and shut off communications with ground control for a day
xLr1 TIL a study at Duke University showed that male rhesus macaques will give up privileges to be allowed to see a female monkey’s ass: “Virtually all [male] monkeys will give up juice to see female hindquarters … they really value the images.”
m6ko TIL: In WWII the U.S. dumped millions of dollars worth of Jeeps, Coca-Cola, food, etc. into the ocean to spite the British and French who refused to pay 6 cents on the dollar for everything, thinking eventually they’d get it for free. Found this scuba diving video of it today.
KYEr6 TIL the SL-1 was the only reactor accident in U.S. history which resulted in immediate fatalities, killing 3 military operators in 1961, pinning one of them to the ceiling.
R5Kb6 TIL ancient Greek legends of Hyperborea, a land abundant in gold from whence the north wind blows and where griffins roam, may draw from the Dzungarian Gate mtn pass connecting China and Central Asia. There's even a (more farfetched) theory linking the legendary griffin to the area's dino fossils.