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TIL Putin wrote an oped for NYT in 1999 selling Intervention + Targeted Strikes on Chechnya

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BRgL TIL Bill Murray voiced the Human Torch in the 1970’s Fantastic Four radio show
v1kZ4 TIL In 1974, Toeless NFL Kicker Tom Dempsey Set A 43-Year Field Goal Record With 2 Seconds Left In The Game, Leading The Saints To A 19-17 Walk-Off Win
GA6g TIL in 1974 a Florida news reporter killed herself on camera and had already written out the script to be read after her death.
NXAne TIL about the Soviet biologist Alexander Chizhevsky, who posited that movements of the sun caused major changes in politics and society. For example, Chizhevsky believed that the Russian revolution, along with various other upheavals and wars, was caused by solar cycles.
mByY TIL of “Fan Death”, a well known myth in South Korean culture, that running an electric fan in a closed room with unopened or no windows can lead to death. Despite no concrete evidence to support the concept, fan death persists due to its popularity as an urban myth or superstition.