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TIL Astronauts have to sleep near a ventilator fan or they risk suffocating in a bubble of their own exhaled carbon dioxide

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VMVXD TIL that Thurop Van Orman, created and voiced title character 'The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack', took inspiration from his own misadventures as a kid like trying to live on a rattlesnake infested island and later trying to live in a Mexican jungle before resorting to eating out of dumpsters.
VBQGD TIL Devin Gaines earned five bachelor's degrees simultaneously in five years from the University of Connecticut. He completed 276 credits and graduated in May 2007. Just two months later in July, he drowned in a gravel pit quarry while swimming with friends.
l7LLa TIL Icarus is actually a story about finding the middle way between the wing-melting sun and ocean, the earliest surviving example of the "golden middle" in Ancient Greek philosophy
gMRQ7 TIL Airbrush illustrations require you to cut out little pieces of film, or "frisket", with an X-acto knife and put them back for every area you want to color. I now appreciate Photoshop that much more.
ANgyl TIL Naegleria fowleri (brain-eating amoeba) was first identified in Czechoslovakia in 1963 and caused the biggest epidemic so far killing 16 young people