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TIL Adolf Hitler wrote admiringly of the Chinese and Japanese. “They belong to ancient civilizations, and I admit freely that their past history is superior to our own. They have the right to be proud of their past, just as we have the right to be proud [of ours].”

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GAelj Today I learned that one of the reasons Alien has such a diverse cast was because they wrote all their characters with no backstory before casting “The crew is unisex, and all parts are interchangeable for men or women.” - Ronald Shusset
5VWn TIL one of the earliest pioneers in parachuting was a woman named Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse, who jumped out of a perfectly good hydrogen balloon in 1799 and descended to safety 900 meters below.
womjE TIL: A key factor of animals belonging to the same species is their ability to produce fertile offspring together. So a Great Dane and a Chihuahua could produce fertile offspring, and a horse and a donkey can have a baby together but their offspring will always be infertile.
4k9OX TIL that the Statue of Liberty’s torch has been closed off since 1916, after shrapnel from an explosion caused by Germans to sabotage munitions for the Allied powers.
0w40R TIL that NASA is planning to send another manned mission, Artemis 3, to land on the lunar surface in 2024. This mission will see not only the next man to step foot on the moon, but the first woman.