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TIL NASA plans for space station's demise with new SpaceX "Deorbit Vehicle"

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8aMN4 TIL: The element Thorium has a half-life of 14 billion years, which is the age of the universe.
ADAP4 TIL that pro-Nazi Party rallies were held at Madison Square Garden in 1934, 1935 and 1939
E1vr7 TIL Newspaper cleans windows better than microfiber rags and paper towels!
691vX TIL that Medieval Europeans wore wooden sandals OVER their cloth shoes. These overshoes, called "pattens," kept the nicer cloth shoes clean from the mud and dung outside, and were removed when going indoors - especially for church.
b6XOp Today I learned that the liquid breathing technology used in the Movie Abyss (1989) is real and the Rats used during filming were actually breathing it in the shots.