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TIL Elevator Music was created to distract riders from the terrifying sounds of early elevators.

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e0Nkg TIL if you climb to the altitude of 408 km from Earth, a person’s weight would be around 90% of what it would be on the ground. The ISS astronauts’ weightlessness is not because “space has no gravity”. Their weightlessness is due to them being in a free fall, constantly accelerating towards Earth.
5VywP TIL on January 21st, 232 years ago, Louis the XVI was guillotined for high treason
8GlG TIL a 14-year-old boy faked being a Chicago Police Officer for an entire shift
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p8VO4 TIL In 1612 at the funeral of Henry Fredrick, Prince of Wales a naked man ran through the crowd of mourners claiming he was the ghost of the recently deceased Prince.