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TIL Solo Synchronized Swimming was a sport at the Olympic Games between 1984 and 1992.

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awoAJ TIL a goat named “Big Boy” escaped from an Ohio farm and headbutted through a glass door in a local home & was found in the bathroom. Failing to get lured out by carrots, dog bone & grass, he was led out by the horns. The family's home insurance covers damage from deer & bears but not goats.
KYGPG TIL that the people in Pompeii did not become "stone statues" by the lava flowing by, but rather encapsulated under a layer of lava and their decomposed bodies leaving a void which arceologists filled with plaster to recreate the bodies that once was there and the postures in which they died.
RLd8 TIL recycling aluminum uses 95% less energy than that needed to produce it from scratch—nearly 75% of the aluminum ever produced is still in use today.
X0XXj TIL that the oldest shipyard that's still operating is the Haliç(Golden Horn) Shipyard of Turkey, Istanbul. Established in 1455 under the name of Imperial Arsenal.
PbAw TIL standard evasive procedure for a surface-to-air-missile being directed at a SR-71 Blackbird, was for the plane to simply accelerate and outfly the missile.