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TIL Bill Shepherd, first Commander of the International Space Station, was a Navy SEAL selected as astronaut. When asked what he does best in his astronaut interview, he said: “Kill people with a knife”

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VEKQ TIL NASA has predicted a near collision course with a 300m wide meteorite they’ve named Apophis (Egyptian God of Death and Darkness) in 2036.
VMwRG Today I learned that there are 1.4 billion insects for every human on Earth. If all the humans in the world got on one scale, and all the bugs in the world got on another scale, the bugs would weigh more.
d8yvZ TIL that the live penguins that starred in Batman Returns (1992) had their own refrigerated dressing rooms and a swimming pool. The set was kept cold for them. Danny DeVito was the only one who was comfortable, because of the extensive face prosthetics, heavy padding, and heavy coat he had to wear.
16WwW TIL the French singer Claude François was electrocuted after standing up during his bath and attempting to adjust a light fixture.
E7lP TIL that, in all 403 of his episodes, Bob Ross used the same 8 colors on his pallette so that his audience didn’t “have to go out and buy 1500 different kinds of colors” in order to paint along with him each week.