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TIL that astronauts must have good airflow around them when they sleep, otherwise they, “…could wake up oxygen-deprived and gasping for air, because a bubble of their own exhaled carbon dioxide had formed around their heads.”

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OG0K7 TIL of Cockaigne, an imaginary land of plenty in medieval myth, where physical comforts and pleasures are always immediately at hand. In Cockaigne, abbots are beaten by their monks, nuns are flipped over to show their bottoms, and the skies rain cheese.
P1e9J TIL Much of the dialogue in the film "Fritz the Cat" was improvised or recorded on the streets of New York. For example, the director Ralph Bakshi went to a Harlem Bar with a tape recorder and spent hours talking to Black patrons and getting drunk with them while asking questions.
pYmkO TIL Chile has its own 9/11. On 11 September 1973, Augusto Pinochet, Minister of War at the time, gave the order to bomb La Moneda to kill the Chilean President Salvador Allende. They could've just got in there and killed him with a gun but they decided to bomb the place. Insane
d8Jmj TIL that the average workweek for a manufacturing employee in the 1890s was 100 hours. The five day, 40-hour workweek didn't become standard until 1940 thanks to the passing of the Fair Labor Standards Act, which required employers to pay overtime to anyone working more than 40 hours.
16vGW TIL that in the town of Hartford Connecticut, during the colonial times, voter receive a booze infused cake slice, after the church considered christmas as pagan and banned the christmas treats.