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TIL Buster Keaton's film The Navigator (1924) was filmed on the USAT Buford. The ship had previously been used for the First Red Scare, as the "Soviet Ark" to deport 249 "undesirables" from the United States to revolutionary Russia, among them the noted anarchist Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman.

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QJg06 The Space Power Facility, near Sandusky, Ohio, was central to many of Nasa's iconic missions
kJxy1 TIL that the last documented human sacrifice by Mapuche indians happened in 1960, after an earthquake and tsunami. A five-year-old had his legs and arms amputed, stuck into the sand like a stake and his body carried by the ocean. A Chilean judge left them free based on "ancient tradition"
wxA8 TIL people with red hair are more sensitive to thermal pain, are less sensitive to electrically induced pain, and require larger amounts of anesthetics than people without red hair due to a mutation in their melanocortin 1 receptor.
bkYN TIL the Fibonacci Sequence was described by an Indian mathematician ~1200 years before Fibonacci wrote of it
Wk6lA Today I Learned that "sideburns" get their name from Ambrose Burnside, a former Union general and U.S. senator, who had extravagant whiskers.