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TIL that in MIT students once put a police car on top of MIT’s dome overnight with the flashing warning lights still in operation with a dummy policeman inside holding a box of donuts and coffee.

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LkD40 TIL - Shirley Temple was among the highest profile advocates about breast cancer awareness. In 1972 it was common for doctors not to tell women their diagnosis and to initiate mastectomy without their knowledge or consent because they were thought unable to deal with the news of their affliction.
AlRn TIL that, unlike the depiction in Gravity, running out of oxygen in a spacesuit is a “cheerful” experience where the diminished 02 means “Everything seems funny. And as you’re laughing about it, you slowly nod off.”
VBYrZ TIL about Pino Puglisi, an anti mafia Sicilian Catholic Priest who worked steer kids away from and denounce organized crime. He was shot outside of his home, last words to the hitmen were "Ive been expecting you"
xNb5 TIL: Teachers in the state of Texas are legally permitted to carry firearms in the classroom.
Jyx1 TIL an eight-year-old Bill Paxton was in the crowd the day John F. Kennedy died, and can be clearly seen in several photographs as he was sitting on the shoulders of an African-American man he’d just met.