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TIL only three humans have ever died outside of the Earth’s atmosphere. All three from the same mission.

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Rp57 TIL 700 years ago a monk scraped off the ink of old parchment to write a new prayer book. Recent discoveries find that the paper he erased was a manuscript written by Archimedes that laid out the heart of Calculus thousands of years before Newton was even born.
EAoP TIL cows with personal names like Betsy give 5% more milk than cows with no name or impersonal names like “cow 12345”
E1yP0 TIL Beekeeping has been going for thousands of years and it was wide spread in the Levant regions by 1500 BCE. The practice was so important for the local economies that in the Hittite laws the penalties for stealing a swam of bees or empty hive was about the same as the fine for stealing a sheep.
egL6 TIL Tesla wouldn’t speak to women who wore pearl jewelry.
yQDBV TIL Stephen Colbert started a Super Pac, then gave it to John Stewart while running for president in 2008