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TIL astronauts don’t float because they’ve escaped Earth’s gravity (they still experience 90% of Earth’s gravity), but because they are in free fall, constantly falling back to Earth

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e0vWL TIL that New York is not named after the English city York, but named after James II (James VII in Scotland) who was the then Duke of York.
Ooxy4 TIL Six Georgia inmates out on work detail saved a Deputy Sheriff who collapsed unconscious. They could have taken his gun & fled with the work van but used the Deputy's phone to call 911. The Sheriff's Office gave the men a pizza party with homemade dessert & recommended reduced sentences.
PYN1g TIL of Elasmotherium: an extinct giant hairy rhino that looked like Mudhorn from Mandalorian
7r6Dx TIL that the strongest recorded hurricane/typhoon/cyclone in history in terms of 1-minute average wind speed, 2015's Hurricane Wilma at 215 mph (345 km/h) in the east Pacific, formed and then dissipated in a span of just 5 days.
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