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TIL : That Voyager 2 is actually older than Voyager 1

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OGPM1 TIL Konstanti Tsiolkovsky, one of the fathers of space exploration, was designing ideas for a tubular space station in 1896 that would go on to resemble the Salyut stations 75 years in the future.
rR7Jx Today I learned about Ossip Bernstein, a famous chess master who escaped the firing squad by winning a game of chess.
KO9OG TIL that in 2001 a Hooter's restaurant held a sales contest offering the prize of a new Toyota (which was actually April Fools’ joke). When a waitress won, she was given a new toy “Yoda". She sued the restaurant alleging fraudulent misrepresentation and won enough money to buy a new car.
XEmJQ TIL of the Chichijima Incident. During an air raid in Japan during WW2, 9 American airmen were shot down, with 8 of which captured, tortured and murdered (5 of which cannibalised). The only one who survived was George H.W. Bush, a then 20 year old pilot.
PYQbV TIL even animals like jellyfish that lack brains need to snooze. Biologists have discovered that like people, jellyfish hit the hay & have the same trouble we do waking up. Because these creatures are very low on the animal family tree, the work suggests that the ability to sleep evolved quite early