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TIL that Prada is going to design NASA’s new Moon suit

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aplJ TIL that civilian GPS in the 90’s was purposely designed to be inaccurate, due to a feature called selective availability (SA). This changed in 2000 when President Bill Clinton decided to turn SA off and GPSs around the world instantly became 10 times more accurate.
kOy6B TIL goats' pupils are horizontal so that when when they bend their heads down to graze, their eyes stay level with the horizon, allowing them a better view of encroaching danger.
WXxX TIL that President Richard Nixon considered pardoning himself at the height of the Watergate scandal.
1dw8 TIL in 2012 a statue of Jesus started dripping water. People declared it holy and started drinking it. A man proved it was bad plumbing and was called a blasphemer. He had to flee to Finland.
4kPM6 TIL the infamous Iron Maiden torture device is likely mythical and there's no evidence of it ever being used during the Middle Ages, their first cited stories were written in the 19th century