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TIL that without thermal controls, the temperature of the international space station would soar to 250 degrees Fahrenheit while in the sun and plunge to minus 250 degrees In the shade.

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rD1e TIL of psychologist David T Lykken’s proposal that having kids should be licensed, and that being unmarried, financially unstable, and having poor health were factors against being given permission to breed.
OGGJ4 TIL Lam Kor-wan 林過雲 is one of Hong Kong's two known serial killers. He worked as a taxi driver and killed 4 women. He would pick up female passengers, strangle them, then take them to his family home, and dismember them. He was caught by trying to develop photographs of his victims in a Kodak shop.
4XwPN TIL that in 1990, a man named Iben Browning predicted a massive earthquake would hit New Madrid, Missouri on December 3rd. The prediction sparked a panic. Schools in 5 states closed, and over 200 media outlets sent reporters to the area. Browning had no seismology expertise, and nothing happened.
J1d4l TIL Denmark fitted contraceptive coils in half the female population of Greenland (without informing them of what their purpose was or receiving consent) to reduce birth rates in the 60s and 70s. Most of those affected were children.
9Yb0r TIL that during the filming of the movie "Rounders", when John Malkovich realized that Matt Damon noticed his awful Russian accent while playing "Teddy KGB", he admitted to Damon "I am a terrible actor."