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TIL the first person of African heritage in space was Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez

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xV98w TIL that throughout South London, there are large sections of fence made out of WWII stretchers. These stretchers were used by civil authorities to transport the injured during the Blitz. They are what remain of the 600,000 built for the city during the war.
d8ZBQ TIL that in the 1984 U.S. Presidential Election, Walter Mondale won only one state - Minnesota, his home state. Ronald Reagan won the other 49.
M7xmK TIL about Tommy Manville, the heir to the Johns-Manville fortune. The terms of his family trust granted him $250,000 "when he married." As a result he got married 13 times, giving the women a cut of the proceeds before quickly divorcing them.
9wEnr TIL that "bro" was rejected as short form for Brotli compression as it was considered misogynistic
OAWe TIL Humans are capable of using the same principles of echolocation that bats, dolphins, and whales use to navigate their surrounds; One of the better-known demonstrators of this phenomenon is Daniel Kish, a man who can ride a bicycle and hike in the wilderness despite having no eyes at all