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TIL Some areas on earth are so remote that sometimes the closest human beings are astronauts aboard the International Space Station when it passes overhead.

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YK9Z TIL: Antoine Dodson, the “Hide Yo Kids, Hide Yo Wife” guy announced he is “no longer into homosexuality” and become a Black Hebrew Israelite, who believe they are descendants of the ancient Israelites.
b9Y1j TIL Dragonflies are capable of higher-level thought processes when hunting its prey. The discovery is the first evidence that an invertebrate animal has brain cells for selective attention, which has so far has only been demonstrated in primates. It selects one target and filters out all others
rRx7e TIL that Dr. Spock the noted Child Psychologist won an Olympic gold medal in rowing at the Paris Olympics 1924.
9YA9p TIL of Hannah Senesh, a Jewish paratrooper and poet during the Holocaust. She was captured, tortured, and eventually executed, but never gave up her comrades. "I could have been twenty-three next July; I gambled on what mattered most, the dice were cast. I lost."
W7eR9 TIL the scathing drunk review from "Citizen Kane" about Kane's wife is based on a real 1925 review of industrialist Samuel Insull's wife penned by the film's own screenwriter.