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5wQB TIL on August 16, 1942, a military blimp left San Francisco bay on a routine submarine-spotting mission. A few hours later, the airship wandered back over land and crashed with nobody aboard. Life rafts and other gear had not been touched. To this day the two man crew has never been found.
KY9Ya TIL the first video game in which jiggly breasts were a notable feature was "Fatal Fury 2," released in 1992.
OMaY TIL the parachutes of mars rovers are being sterilized to prevent life from earth “hitchhikes” to mars, making it impossible to distinguish from possible microbes on mars.
6E1aZ TIL About the overview effect: It is the experience of seeing firsthand the reality of the Earth in space, which is immediately understood to be a tiny, fragile ball of life, "hanging in the void"
ZpPDQ TIL: Arctic means "Bear", and Antarctic "No bear", because the Big Dipper, "the greater she-bear", is always visible in the northern pole sky. The fact that there are Polar bears in the Arctic but not in the Antarctic continent is purely a coincidence.