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TIL there's a suit designed to facilitate sex in space

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GAnGN TIL Gandalfs stand at Minas Tirith in The Lord of The Rings books was based on a real bishop who mounted a hopeless defense against the Magyars until the emperor came to relieve him with an army of heavy knights.
wo0xM TIL about a 1960s era Canadian device that supposedly tested whether or not you were a homosexual
neAZW TIL that no one has ever measured the one-way speed of light. In fact it is undefined. All measurements of light speed are done using two-way (mirror) setups. It is entirely possible that light travels at c from A to B, and instantaneously from B to A, for a round trip speed of c.
5VB19 TIL there is at least one known occasion in Ancient Athens where a whole six thousand jurors sat together to judge a single case
0drE5 TIL that Edward I of England was invited by Scotland's nobles to arbitrate a succession crisis over the Scottish throne. Edwards attempts to use this to assert overlordship over Scotland led to a 32 year war of independence.