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TIL the first (Russian) spacewalk encountered problems leading to reentry deep in Siberia, where the astronauts had to camp in the reentry module overnight to keep bears and wolves at bay.

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V4Z TIL that Spider-Man was Sexually Abused by his trusted friend Skip. (Full Comic)
X0J9X TIL: three different cardiac surgeons (Norwood, Glenn, Fontan) independently came up with surgeries to fix babies’ congenital heart defects. Nowadays the surgeries are done one after another as part of one mega treatment (“staged” reconstruction)
8eXXb TIL that Katherine Hepburn was a passionate and skilled golfer, and once reached the semi-finals of the Connecticut Young Women’s Championship.
4Xabb TIL Canadian Inuk writer Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk never had formal education before she was twenty. In the 1950s, she started writing a novel in Inuktitut syllabics when a missionary asked her to write some sentences in Inuktitut so he could learn the language
n769 TIL that, in 1978, a Stanford PhD student murdered his advisor with a sledgehammer after being told that he would never get a doctorate after 19 years in graduate school.