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TIL "Trick or treating" only started in the 1930's in Canada and then spread to the US

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NOwe TIL NASA has a detailed set of written procedures for dealing with a suicidal or psychotic astronaut in space. The astronaut’s crewmates should bind his wrists and ankles with duct tape, tie him down with a bungee cord and inject him with tranquilizers if necessary.
d864E TIL That the military has digitized most military records and I can now get my DD214 within a few minutes, instead of the few weeks it used to be.
Y7L7P TIL: Panama is the only place on the planet that has square trees- even the transplanted trees from the square trees grow round as usual when planted in other places outside of Panama. And the “rings,” of the interior tree grow in a square shape, rather than the usual circle, making it truly unique.
woJ71 TIL about Beal Aerospace. A private space launch company formed in 1997 that could have been SpaceX 20 years earlier if not for NASA changing their mind about private spaceflight at the time.
PYVKw TIL The National Archives sells a replica of the Resolute desk for $8000.