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TIL the ISS has an amateur radio station aboard that is used by astronauts to make contact with schools while in orbit. Occasionally, during their downtime, they also "call out" to any amateur radio operators on Earth.

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xVWXk TIL about Bluefields, an English-speaking town in Spanish-speaking Nicaragua, which was named after a Dutch-Jewish pirate, was previously part of the Mosquito (Miskito) Kingdom, and was only connected to the rest of the country by road in 2019
l7Mm1 TIL that Inuit from Greenland traveled to Scotland via kayak. The first recorded instance was in 1682, but it's possible Inuit had made the trip for hundreds of years prior. One of their kayaks is even preserved in Aberdeen, Scotland.
X0mVj TIL Tesla’s OSHA violations made up 75 percent of all the violations among the top 10. From 2014 to 2018, Tesla’s auto production facility in Fremont, California, was issued a total of 54 OSHA violations: three times more than all the top 10 auto plants in the U.S. combined.
VMVvk TIL: In 1820, the median age in the US was 16.7 years old
oBm07 TIL that in WWII, pilots often blacked out in turns as high g forces made blood pool in their legs. British Ace Douglas Bader, however, did not have this problem, since his legs had been amputated after an accident.