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TIL first female boxer, first ever elevator & first black athlete to win Olympic gold

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d8mmK TIL: Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around "as high as a kite"
kyZg TIL one can smell fear. A chemical pheromone is released in their sweat when people are afraid, and other people can smell, even if they are unaware of it.
EgOV7 TIL of the musical style Bhangramuffin. Fusing bhangra with ragga/dancehall, it was created in the 90s by UK artist Apache Indian and popularised with his global hit “Boom Shak-A-Lak”
MevRb TIL that after covering one of his songs Prince summoned Sinead O'Connor to his house to tell her to stop swearing in interviews. When she told him to F off he punched and attacked her and she had to escape from his house
EXjd TIL that “percussive maintenance” is the term for hitting something until it works