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

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69XoQ TIL that only 30-50% of people have an “inner monologue”
J15x8 TIL that the artist Mary Vincent (McGriff) survived a SA at age 15 where the perpetrator cut both her forearms off and threw her off a cliff. She survived and walked several miles before being rescued.
yVKw TIL that the Angel falls, the highest waterfall in the world, was named after Jimmy Angel, a US pilot who crash landed in Venezuela and was searching for his way back to civilization.
xkyk TIL British troops used over 72 million amphetamine tablets during WWII
xO8b TIL “The Blue Marble” is the only whole-earth photo taken by human hands. No one has since been far enough from earth to take a similar picture.