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TIL that several long-duration Russian cosmonauts have reported that months after coming back to Earth, they occasionally let go objects in mid-air, still expecting them to float.

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PYZvZ TIL One of the first recorded applications for a closed circuit television system (CCTV) was back in 1942 in Nazi Germany, where it was used to monitor the launch of V2 rockets.
rNlj1 TIL when were less than 5,000 Europeans in the large Louisiana area of New France before 1724, hundreds of good women, and also separately hundreds of criminal women were sent to Louisiana because of a shortage of women.
RAKl TIL that horses cannot vomit due to the angle their esophagus enters their stomach and the muscle tone of their esophago-gastric junction. If a horse does vomit it means that they are close to death
vPE0L TIL, that the concept of a pre-flight checklist was first introduced by management and engineers at the Boeing Company following the 1935 crash of the prototype Boeing B-17 (then known as the Model 299) at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio, killing both pilots.
W8Yo TIL the Black Panther Party provided a free breakfast for over 10,000 children every single day after learning that a substantial breakfast was vital to supporting schooling.