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TIL Alexei Leonov, the first man to perform a spacewalk, almost wasn't able to get back in the capsule as his suit had expanded in the vacuum of space. Many problems plagued the mission including a poor landing 240mi off course forcing the 2 man crew to survive for 2 days in the freezing wilderness.

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aMdL TIL that a lake in Kazakhstan was created using a nuclear weapon and has decayed to the point that people can swim in it
R77D9 TIL there’s a species of cactus that lives so far north in Canada that it’s north of the southern edge of Alaska
woN1J TIL that in 2023, scientists discovered a massive structure in space called the "Big Ring"—it’s so big that it shouldn’t even exist according to our current understanding of cosmology. The universe is supposed to be uniform on large scales, with no structures bigger than about 1 billion light-years.
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