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TIL that the sun is extremely loud

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J1Lbm TIL that the longest chess game in history took over 20 hours to complete and ended in a draw.
A4Ka TIL That Skeletor is actually He-Man’s uncle.
4RaJ TIL in 1981, Ronald Reagan fired 11,345 air traffic controllers after they refused to end their strike and subsequently banned them from federal service for life.
nWBEY TIL in 1963, a cat named Félicette became the first and only cat (so far) to travel to space. She was sent on the mission by the French government and successfully returned to Earth, providing valuable scientific data from her 15-minute suborbital flight
yVAWl TIL the only survivor of a mid-air collision between 2 planes over Amur Oblast (that killed her husband & 36 others) fell 5,220 meters while holding onto a piece of the plane. After waiting 2 days in the woods with fractures to her arms, ribs & spine, she began to walk on the 3rd & found rescuers.