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TIL that NASA's spacesuits cost over $12 million each, and the agency has fewer than a dozen functional ones remaining.

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7rNDx TIL that comedian and actor Tracy Morgan was in several scenes in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind but was left out of the final cut of the movie.
Eevx TIL that in 2013 a grad student accidentally debunked an influential economics paper. He was trying to replicate the paper’s math for a school project and couldn’t, because it was completely wrong.
OxkR TIL that black people with the lowest test scores have a better acceptance rate into med school than Asians with the highest test scores.
R7bN4 TIL if you develop an aversion to a food you previously loved but vomited up even just one time after eating, that is called the Garcia Effect. This happens even if you know getting sick had nothing to do with the food you ate and instead was due to a virus.
R7Oea TIL that Michael Jackson suffered from severe insomnia and did not get any real sleep for 60 days prior to his death. Instead, his personal doctor had been putting him under general anestheisa every night.