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TIL Eleanor Roosevelt had an aversion to sexual intercourse, and considered it “an ordeal to be endured”

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4kNLX TIL, Colonel Neel Kearby, an American fighter pilot during WW2 who was credited in destroying 22 enemy aircraft and received the Medal of Honor, was shot down and killed on March 5, 1944. All of his three children died in aircraft accidents in the US in the 1970s.
eGoL TIL of “Shifting Baseline Syndrome”, where each generation uses previous reference points as baselines despite those points representing significant changes from even earlier states. Each generation defines the “natural” state differently, and large changes over time often go unnoticed.
QJK4M TIL that 60% of the geysers on Earth are in Yellowstone Park.
ZpVmG TIL that the Parker Solar Probe is going 700000 kph so it would take 33 minutes to reach the Moon From Earth.
aw7Bo TIL that while at university, Prince William was called "Steve" to avoid any journalists overhearing and discovering his identity