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TIL: Certain US college athletes can buy insurance to protect against future loss of earnings as a pro due to disabling injury during college

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GAA9J TIL Hippos will aggressively spray poop at the mere sound of strange hippos voice
JY1n8 It’s never happened, and NASA feels confident that it never will. For one thing, astronauts generally don’t float free. Outside the ISS, they’re always attached to the spacecraft with a braided steel tether, which has a tensile strength of 1,100 pounds. If it’s a two-person spacewalk, oftentimes the astronauts are also hooked to each other.
LbNv TIL NFL football offensive lineman John Urschel has been published in several complex mathematics journals.
WEoA TIL that the thermal energy released from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius which devastated Pompeii in AD 79 was 100,000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bombing.
wGp1 TIL that after WWII and before he began his acting career, Christopher Lee hunted down and captured Nazi war criminals.