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TIL that in 1984, a giant pee-icicle formed on the outside of the space shuttle Discovery. Astronauts had to break it off using a robotic arm and shut down the toilet for the remainder of the mission.

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1jkX TIL of Hofstadter’s Law which states “It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.”
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