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TIL this 80’s/90’s look actually has a name, and it’s called Memphis.

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D1l4e TIL that astronauts inside the ISS are not experiencing lack of gravity. At that altitude, gravity is about 90% that of the surface of Earth. The station is simply in an endless state of freefall which is what makes things float inside it.
ObM4 TIL in the movie Galaxy Quest (1999), the scene where Tim Allen’s character overhears the convention goers calling him and the show’s cast “nobodies” and claiming the cast “couldn’t stand him” actually happened to William Shatner when he attended a Star Trek convention.
OnJ1 TIL of the only lynching in Canada’s history, when, in 1884, an American mob crossed the border in order to hang a Native American teenager wrongly accused of murder.
R7657 TIL It is impossible to wash clothes on board the International Space Station. It would take too much water. The astronauts wear their clothes until they are too dirty and then throw them out. All ISS waste burns up in the atmosphere on re-entry.
JYLBl TIL that the town of Zzyzx in California was named by a quack doctor to purposely be the last listing in any dictionary or atlas