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vnZK TIL of Space Adaptation Syndrome, involving nausea and vomiting, vertigo, headaches, lethargy, and overall malaise. 45-75% of all astronauts experience it. It has always resolved within 72 hours.
eDA5 TIL in 1974, an American television news reporter, commited suicide live on TV. She had written a script which included not only the shooting, but also a third person account to be read by whoever took over the broadcast after she had shot herself.
oYlr TIL: Two psychologists were paid $81 million by the CIA to advise on and help implement torture.
neJjr TIL that cancer feeds off sugar so much that sugar is used as a marker for PET scans to diagnose cancer, and that ironically, people are usually offered a sugary drink after said PET scan
e0BXg TIL 3 men escaped from Alcatraz by digging holes in their cells using spoons, accessing an unguarded utility corridor. They climbed onto the roof, down a 50' drainpipe and over two 12' security fences before inflating a makeshift raft and swimming across the Bay. Their bodies have never been found.