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TIL That Henry VIII’s Foot Combat Armour was studied to help develop space suits.

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5YabQ TIL that the British Medical Journal does an annual Christmas Issue, where they publish research-quality but satirical articles, like a randomized trial on the effectiveness of parachutes, or investigating the driving behaviors of different physician specialties
R7dWw TIL someone born in Shenzhen in 1980 would've started school in a tiny town about the size of Ithaca, NY or Port Huron, MI (30,000 population) and would now be living in the 24th largest city in the world, with more people than Paris (12 million+ population).
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