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Today I Learned (TIL)

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ANNOUNCEMENT: We, as a subreddit, have decided we will be going dark on June 12th for 48 hours in support of the community protest (details at the link)

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TIL Cuban high jumper Javier Sotomayor cleared 6 feet when he was 14. He cleared 7 feet when he was 16, and is the only human in history to jump 8 feet. His best jump of 8 feet 1/4 inch (2.45 m) has been the world record since 1993.

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TIL Fungi in Chernobyl appear to be feeding off gamma radiation and are growing towards the reactor core.

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TIL that The Winstons, the soul group who created the most sampled music track in history, received no royalties for their famous drum sample (used by groups such as Oasis). Gregory Coleman, the drummer who performed in the sample, died homeless and destitute in 2006

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TIL that the last Great Auk egg ever was accidentally cracked in the struggle to strangle its parents

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Posted by12 hours ago

TIL During the American Revolution the British captured Penobscot Bay and the Colonies sent an armada to take it back. All 44 of ships of the American Armada and hundreds of men were lost in the attack, making it the largest naval defeat in American history until Pearl Harbor, 162 years later.

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Posted by19 hours ago

TIL that Varina Davis, the First Lady of the Confederate States of America, was personally opposed to slavery and doubted the Confederacy could ever succeed. After her husband’s death, she moved to New York City and wrote that “the right side had won the Civil War.”

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