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TIL Orbital mechanics in 60 seconds

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PA8n TIL Muhammed Ali helped talk a 21yr old man down from jumping off a building in Los Angeles. Ali told the young man “You’re my brother. I love you and I wouldn’t lie to you.”
yQrQJ TIL that leap years occur mostly every 4 years, but every 100 years we skip a leap year unless the year is divisible by 400, meaning that 2000 is a leap year while 2100 is not.
Vg64 TIL the Pope was not officially declared infallible until the 1st Vatican Council in 1870
b6rrj TIL that our blood is red because it is rich in iron. Some animals have blue blood because it is rich in copper.
rR5je TIL that, in 1838, Edgar Allan Poe wrote a story in which four shipwreck survivors were forced to eat a cabin boy named Richard Parker. 46 years later, the situation was mirrored uncannily in real life, as four shipwreck survivors were forced to eat a cabin boy named Richard Parker.