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TIL A man, Denver Lee St. Clair died after being subjected to an atomic wedgie by his 33 year old stepson

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vPZjj TIL In 2014, China's first astronaut Yang Liwei joined Buzz Aldrin at the International Planetary Congress to explore possibilities for expanding human spaceflight cooperation. The movie "Gravity" was part of a discussion on rescuing astronauts in peril between space stations
9YnAp TIL Former US President George HW Bush was once head of the CIA
l7PKN TIL: Researchers Joseph and Charles Vacanti grew a human "ear" seeded from implanted cow cartilage cells on the back of a living mouse to explore the possibility of fabricating body parts for plastic and reconstructive surgery
NQvM TIL Out of 10.7 million Africans who survived the voyage to the New World, only 388,000 were shipped to North America (-6%).
VMY6p TIL that ‘anhedonia’ is a reduced ability to experience joy, and it is often a symptom of depression that persists even after a person’s depression goes in remission.