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TIL That Live Aid was not about Queen's legendary performance only. It is also about Phil Collins appearing live in London and then in Philadelphia on July 13th, 1985. Yes, he flew in a Concord to perform live halfway around the world on the same day.

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jNBRa TIL In 1943, Mexican farmer Dionisio Pulido witnessed the birth of a volcano in his cornfield, 200 miles west of Mexico City. Starting as a slight depression, it soon became a smoking, hissing fissure. Over 9 years, the volcano Paricutin grew to a height of 7454 feet & destroyed several towns.
WkYV9 TIL Naloxone (Narcon) has became a mainstay of hospital emergency rooms and medical wards. It can be injected or sprayed up the nose, and can stop/reverse a heroin overdose in under two minutes. It’s so vital the World Health Organization placed the drug on its list of essential medications in 1983.
4Xbow TIL During the American Revolutionary War more Americans lost their lives from neglect aboard British prison ships in New York Bay than died in all the battles of the war
e0R4E TIL that the Fallout mascot isn’t giving a thumbs up. He’s testing to see if he’s within the radiation zone. The government used to instruct citizens to test if the mushroom cloud is larger than their thumbs. If it is, they are in the radiation zone and should evacuate.
X05DQ TIL: During the 18 months of the Great Plague (1665-1666), Isaac Newton conceived calculus, set foundations for his theory of light and color, theory of gravity, worked on laws of planetary motion and wrote many papers creating the foundations of early calculus.