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TIL that each space shuttle was named after historical and influential ships of science and exploration

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YdMv TIL in 1976 a novel about “a lonely librarian in northern Ontario who enters into a sexual relationship with a bear” won the Canadian Governor General’s Literary Award
N7BQ8 TIL that there is a slow motion camera that can record 10 trillion frames per second. This is fast enough to actually see light travel from point to point.
gDM7 TIL the first female Athenian doctor had to dress as a man in order to get her education and practice medicine because being a female doctor was a capital crime, but when she became the most popular doctor in town among women in her male guise, the other doctors accused her of seducing her patients.
MRV7 TIL that the Infinite Monkey Theorem, stating that monkeys with typewriters and enough time could produce the entire works of Shakespeare, has been tried out in real life. They wrote five pages of S, slammed the keyboard with a stone and took a shit on it.
e04DE TIL about the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act which states that it is illegal for a company to void warranties on items that have been self-repaired with third party parts, like phones, gaming consoles, and vehicles.