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TIL that wearing a tie can reduce blood flow to the brain by 7.5 per cent.

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BrZRr TIL In 1964, Zambian teacher and freedom fighter Edward Mukuka Nkoloso started a space program. Weightlessness training involved rolling downhill in an oil drum, flight was planned to be via catapulting from a tree and the crew consisted of a 16 year old girl, a Christian missionary and some cats.
mx4Ky TIL the three men who volunteered to turn of the valve at Chernobyl, did not die shortly after, and two are still alive today.
wL7x8 Til, Heracleitus, sick with Dropsy, tried to cure it by covering himself in cow dung, thinking that it would draw the bad humours out. One version claims that the manure was too wet and he drowned in it, another that it was too dry and he dried out, third version says dogs ate him whole.
GYoR7 TIL it takes four days of good sleep to fully recover from just 1 hour of needed sleep lost.
jN89j TIL the patron saint of horses and prisons, Hippolytus, was also one of the first antipopes.