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TIL The human sigh acts as a physiological reset button
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TIL the famous photo of Marines raising the American flag over Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima taken on Feb. 23, 1945, was actually the second flag raised there that day. AP photographer Joe Rosenthal missed the first raising because he was "still climbing up the mountain at the time"
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TIL in 1997, at a youth basketball camp, Orlando Magic player Dennis Scott randomly told children not to ask for his autograph but "ask me about the rage that's inside of me". Scott was in the midst of new contract negotiations at that time; he was eventually traded to the Dallas Mavericks.
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TIL that the Firefly TV show theme song “The Ballad Of Serenity” was used by STS-130 Space shuttle astronaut Robert L. Behnken and the other crew members as a wake up song on February 12, 2010
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TIL that flying cars were invented in 1954
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TIL in 1972, astronaut Neil Armstrong visited the Scottish town of Langholm, where he was read a 400-year-old law declaring any “Armstrong” that enters the town must be hanged