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OGxBa TIL the heat from the Mount Vesuvius eruption was so intense, it turned parts of one victim's brain into glass
rNepW TIL - In 2000, the first crewed mission to the International Space Station (Expedition 1) launched on October 31. This began continuous human presence in space, with astronauts from NASA and Roscosmos working together aboard the ISS. The collaboration has been ongoing ever since.
R7en6 TIL That the designer of the 90s Disney video games Aladdin and Goof Troop to the Super Nintendo were designed by none other than Shinji Mikami, that created Resident Evil, who also helped produce many other famous video game series
7rZ9b TIL the Notre Dame Cathedral was left to ruin until it was restored in the 19th century, and the restoration was Eugène Viollet-le-Duc's reimagining of what a Middle-Age Cathedral may have looked like.
6Endl TIL that prior to the development of modern guns, soldiers needed to use their teeth to open cartridges, so militaries introduced requirements about the minimum number of the teeth of their soldiers. In some cases soldiers would pull or damage their teeth in order to avoid military conscription.