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TIL of Agness, a town in rural SE Oregon, that is serviced by USPS mailboat due to mountainous and isolated terrain.

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loAYA TIL about singer and pioneer sound recording artist George W. Johnson, born in 1846, who sold more than 25.000 wax cylinders. Since every recording was a "master" back then, he would record the same song over and over with several recording devices pointed at him, sometimes fifty or more times a day
BrYwb TIL that in 1978 Sigmund Jähn, an East German Air Force pilot, was the first German in space. He joined the crew of Soyuz 31 on a manned space mission to the Soviet space station Salyut 6. Sigmund died on Sept. 21, 2019, at age 82.
0dRPN TIL prehistoric cave art may have been an early form of cinema. When torch light is simulated at the historic hearth, superimposed images on the wall appeared to move. Rhinos charge, antelope leap and arrows fly.
ZpP5v TIL that video gaming causes increases in the brain regions responsible for spatial orientation, memory formation and strategic planning as well as fine motor skills.
4YLJ TIL of a 20th century pilot who landed intoxicated in the streets of New York City; twice, because a bar patron refused to believe he had done it the first time.