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TIL Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti wore a 'Star Trek' uniform in space

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Wkwb9 TIL archeologists discovered more than 40 well preserved ship wrecks ranging from Byzantine, to the Venetian, to the Ottoman empires. The wood of some ships was so well-preserved that chisel and tool marks were still visible on individual planks due to the unusual water chemistry of the Black Sea
5VdoD TIL the longest poem in the world is the Mahabharata with 1.8 million words
a8YV0 TIL that the end of the Stone Age to the present represents only around 0.7% of human history.
e0JGk TIL of Berengaria of Navarre, the only Queen of England to have never set foot in the country. She was married to Richard the Lionheart for 8 years
8dYV TIL Jackie Wilson always kissed the “ugliest” girl in the audience because “they’ll all think they can have me and keep coming back and buying my records.”