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TIL: ASL works just fine in microgravity.

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Meg40 TIL a scientist stationed in Antarctica managed to score a date through Tinder with a girl camping just 45 minutes away.
W7D1Y TIL in 2007 Best Buy admitted it used a secret intranet site that showed higher prices than the ones customers found at the main site. One way the secret site was used was to trick customers into coming into the store by showing sales online that were discovered to not exist once physically there.
7rYYX TIL During the Cold War, the US tested its ejector seats out on bears.
BgeoD TIL while filming a scene in Seven where he's chasing John Doe in the rain, Brad Pitt fell & his arm went thru a car windshield, requiring surgery. This was written into the script to explain Pitt's cast. Coincidentally, the original script did call for Pitt to be injured in the scene (differently).
VB7P0 TIL the Book of Henryków (Księga henrykowska) contains the earliest known sentence written in Polish, dated 1270. Originally intended to document looted belongings during the Mongol invasion of Poland in 1241, the Latin chronicle gradually grew to include the monastery's history.