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TIL Scott Kelly was the first person in space to wear a Gorilla costume.

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PVJe TIL Shortly before his death Stanley Kubrick had all the outtakes and deleted scenes from his films destroyed. Burning “thousands of cans” of film so that no one could re-edit his movies.
8a88b TIL The first type of cancer discovered was breast cancer, which was discovered in 1500 BC. The treatment back then was nearly the same as the treatment now, which was to just remove the tumor.
G0GE TIL that despite constituting less than 0.1% of the prison population, the Aryan Brotherhood is responsible for 18-25% of prison murders.
gr8KA TIL Fritz Haber invented a process of ammonia synthesis both to save the world from starvation and to serve the German war machine. He never saw the creation of Zyklon B from his process and its use by the Nazis to kill his relatives in the gas chambers. His wife committed committed suicide.
DQxvp TIL in 2020 Poland banned all flights from Andorra due to Covid. They later rescinded the ban upon realizing Andorra does not have an airport.