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TIL: Satellites from Earth require a higher velocity to reach the sun compared to leaving the solar system

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b9vVE TIL of Vivien Thomas, An African-American surgical technician that developed the procedures used to treat blue baby syndrome ( a fatal heart condition in infants) in the 1940s. He was offered the position of Chief of Surgery at Johns Hopkins (his alma mater) in 1941.
Bjwe TIL In an early script for Star Trek: The Motion Picture Kirk was set to fight Jesus on the bridge of the Enterprise
JvNl TIL a senator from Florida “went on vacation” in the middle of his term, never came back, and eventually turned up homeless and insane in the streets of Detroit
kJYv5 TIL B-17 crews in WWII were volunteers, they could quit flying at any time. They had some of the highest casualty rates of any service in the war yet thousands continued to fly.
rRgEW TIL, when actor Heinrich Schmieder, who in the movie “Downfall” played Hitler’s bodyguard, Oberscharführer Rochus Misch, died in 2004, the real Misch was still alive and would live nine more years