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TIL the Death Star trench run was modeled after a real world event: The Dambusters Raid

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OJ5a TIL the Navy e-Reader Device, for use aboard US Navy Submarines, is pre-loaded with Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings books
NX06E TIL that flying squirrels glow hot pink with blue ears, nose, and paws under a UV light
6E5aQ TIL Although there is no specialized sensory organ for time, our perception of time nevertheless depends on the rate of change in different sensory modalities. In the absence of sensory input, e.g. under anaesthesia, the sense of time is often lost or impaired.
0dwr1 TIL that Harry Houdini had skepticism of anything mystical and had intense anger at miracle workers, spiritualists, and mediums that preyed on vulnerable people.
oBo4r TIL that Germany funded the 1917 communist revolution in Russian (Lenin and the Bolsheviks) to bring down the Russian monarchy it was at war with. Only for Lenin to attempt to fund a communist revolution in Germany later.