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TIL that NASA thought Sally Ride needed 100 tampons for a week in space "just to be safe."

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4X5wg TIL Kramer from Seinfeld was based on co-creator Larry David's eccentric neighbor who was always trying to come up with get-rich-quick schemes.
0Qlp TIL that President Andrew Jackson once killed a man in a duel over his wife’s honor
x6aKk TIL North America was once divided by the great Western Interior Seaway that ranged from the present Artic to Gulf of Mexico beginning around the Mesozoic period (approx. 200 millions years ago +/-) Its why Alberta, a land locked province, has such great fossil deposits.
kOpg7 TIL the first extensive history of the colonization of the Americas (first hand account of one of the first European settlers) wasn't published for 314 years and still hasn't been translated into English.
d8wMB TIL that Queen Elizabeth II is considered the first head of state to have used electronic mail. On March 26, 1976, sent her first email while taking part in a network technology demonstration in Malvern, England. The message was transmitted over ARPANET, the forerunner of the modern Internet.