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TIL Malaria did not kill half of all humans who have ever lived

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OgKL TIL The neon flying squid engages in behaviors that prolong its time airborne, and thus is considered to be closer to actual flight than just gliding.
BrmOK TIL there are (wild) baboons who raise and keep dogs as part of their tribes
1a61O TIL in 1961 when Yuri Gagarin returned from space Nikita Khrushchev wanted to boost the Soviet's anti-religion campaign by saying: "Gagarin flew into space, but didn't see any god there."
rRvod TIL da Vinci's The Last Supper painting (1498) is 29 feet wide and 23 feet tall, and around 1652 a door was cut through part of it, destroying the area in which Jesus's feet were depicted.
x6bnb TIL Astronauts of the first Apollo crew, Apollo 7, had to wait until 2008 to be honored with the NASA Distinguished Service Medal. All other Apollo astronauts received the award almost four decades earlier. Apollo 7 was deemed to be a "101% success"