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TIL Nasa hasn't built any spacesuits since 1974. They've been reusing the same suits for 50 years, and currently only have 4 in operation.

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9wLRm TIL in 2012, a computer history museum in California sent a team to Sparkler Filters, a company in Texas, to try to coax them into selling their IBM 402 with Model 129 key punch that was being used for accounting work and inventory. In 2013, the company was still using the machine.
OoX6g TIL Some 10 percent of Dongguan's more than 8 million population is said to engage in sex work. It is estimated that at its peak there were more than 250,000 sex workers and brothels are often disguised as hair salons or karaoke bars
e0xG6 TIL about Ferdinand Cheval, a French postman who spent 33 years of his life building his own palace using stones he collected on his daily mail trips. Although he wanted to be buried in it, the French Government refused, and he spent another 8 years building a mausoleum to complement it.
Z8gDo TIL Ancient European hunter-gatherers were using garlic mustard seeds to give their foods a peppery kick as far back as 6,000 years ago, making it the oldest evidence of spice used for cooking.
R5Mx8 TIL Jackie Robinson served in the first black tank unit to see action in WW2, but missed deployment due to his court-martial for refusing to move to the back of a bus.