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TIL that the Starship Enterprise uses barcode scanners as controls.

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By4y TIL Molly Pitcher manned a cannon during the Revolutionary War when her husband fainted from heat stroke or injury. She didn’t back down, even when a cannonball shot the skirt from between her legs.
4X4v6 TIL that, after she wanted to marry a lawyer whom her mother disapproved of, Blanche Monnier was locked by her mother in her room for 25 years--being discovered and rescued by the police in 1901.
9wVdD TIL the placenta develops from cells that originate from the embryo, and has the same DNA as the fetus. So eating the placenta is technically eating parts of the baby.
R5L87 TIL George Lucas wanted David Lynch to direct "Return of the Jedi"
epNDg TIL that at the age of 11 years and 330 days Thomas Gregory holds the record for being the youngest person to swim the English Channel