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TIL Jason David Frank filmed a pilot that would eventually become VR Troopers called "Cybertron."

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DQQDr TIL Scientists Make Simulated Moondust, JSC-1 simulant, to use to test equipment intended for The Moon. It is very abrasive, which grinds machinery & seals, & damages human lungs.
LklLm TIL about hedonic adaptation, which is the tendency for people to return to a baseline happiness level regardless of what happens to them. A study conducted on lottery winners and paraplegics concluded that neither group was either happier or sadder less than 6 months after the event.
xVN8w Saturn is home to some of the strongest winds in the solar system, with wind speeds of over 1,100 miles per hour and thanks to these strong winds and also auroras, Saturn’s atmosphere is “so warm.”
x64v7 TIL Arthur Conan Doyle Secretly Resented His Sherlock Holmes Character
gkV4 TIL of Dora Ratjen of Nazi Germany who competed as a woman in the olympics and broke women’s world records; but was arrested for fraud when he was turned out to be a man named Hermann, with all his rewards taken back and given to the women he beat