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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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J8BB TIL a soccer team scored 149 own goals in one match protesting a controversial referee decision in previous game
xVXyo TIL About the "Candy Bombers" who in addition to provided air drops of food to starving people in Berlin during the Soviet blockade also dropped candy for the children. An act that continues today during food drops.
BpWb TIL the Pope worked as a bouncer to pay for school.
JYNXm TIL Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt developed a card-based method for promoting creativity and brainstorming called "Oblique Strategies," which would give generic aphorisms/instructions to apply to any creative process
8aVbK TIL: Canadian insurance companies run a cloud seeding program to prevent the formation of large hailstones and reduce the amount of insurance claims for hail damage