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TIL an astronauts eyes flatten after several months in space.

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m1Kdp TIL: Irish Socialist James Gralton is the only Irish man to be deported from Ireland.
ENo0 TIL When Britain abolished slavery they simply bought up all the slaves and freed them. It cost a third of the entire national budget, around £100 billion in today’s money.
1aNg7 TIL it's illegal to let your donkey sleep in your bathtub in Arizona. In 1924, a merchant near the town of Kingman let his donkey sleep in an old bathtub when a local dam broke. The donkey was swept away in the tub and the locals spent a lot of manpower rescuing the animal. The donkey survived.
neBm9 TIL despite being one of the most common elements on Earth, aluminum was hard to isolate until the 1800s. It wasn't widely used for everyday things like coins and foil until the 1950s and 60s. At one point in history, it was more valuable than gold
GxVj TIL murderer Richard McNair mailed himself out of prison, convinced a police officer he wasn’t the fugitive they were looking for, and lived in Canada for over a year while running a blog on himself