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TIL A dedicated Star Wars fan Is painstakingly restoring the star wars movies Without all the special edition crap!

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JYrRB TIL that an American flag that was flown on the final shuttle mission in 2011, was left on the ISS to be returned to Earth by the next crew to be launched from the US. After 9 years, the crew of Demo 2 should be returning it.
0deb5 TIL that one of the first devices made to estimate electric voltage, the "Frog Galvanoscope" of the late 1700s, was named after its crude method of attaching electrical wires directly to the exposed nerve of a recently skinned frog leg, which would jerk suddenly in response to electric current.
GAoG TIL Chuck Yeager, the first man to break the sound barrier in a plane, did it with a broken arm and two broken ribs and had to close the plane’s cockpit with a broomstick.
rm01 TIL Fruit bat mothers cry when you take their baby away
W6XB TIL in Russia, women cannot be sentenced to life imprisonment.