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TIL Shenzhou 3, launched in 2002, lasted 6 days and carried a dummy into orbit to simulate physiological signals of a human — palpitation, pulse, breathing, eating, metabolism, and excretion

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1Gj8 TIL That an asteroid is on course to pass in between the earth in the moon and has a chance to hit satellites and possibly even Earth itself in February 2013
KYNZB TIL In 1890 a political struggle over seating a republican from West Virginia turned so heated it became called the "Battle of the Reed Rules". Speaker Reed ordered the doors barred to prevent a quorum from being denied, though Constantine Kilgore of Texas escaped by kicking a door down.
rRkZy TIL that Ronald Reagan was deeply affected by the film The Day the Earth Stood Still, to the point that at his first meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, he suggested that the world might put national differences aside in the face of an alien threat
v1PoR TIL ex-president James A. Garfield contributed to an original proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
lO7a TIL 16-term Congressman Barney Frank was openly gay since 1987 but kept his atheism a secret till he left office because in politics, it’s harder to come out as atheist