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TIL astronauts must have good airflow around them when they sleep, otherwise, they could wake up oxygen-deprived and gasping for air because a bubble of their own exhaled carbon dioxide had formed around their heads.

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114P TIL: There’s a statue in Glasgow called the “Duke of Wellington” with a traffic cone on its head since 1980. The city removed it several times but a new one would appear in the night so they gave up and it now a permanent icon of the city.
oabK TIL that Catullus, an ancient Roman poet, wrote a poem criticizing those who considered his poems too racy, and that poem both began and ended with a line that translates to “I will sodomize you and face-fuck you.”
Ox0g TIL that our brains have the tendency to start to shut down when presented with ideology different from our own, with less blood being delivered to the parts of our cortex responsible for rational thought, until another statement is presented that confirms our beliefs
0wL7L TIL Thomas Marshall - Vice President under Woodrow Wilson - once fell for a false rumor that Wilson had died. He was at Church at the time he received the false news, and - believing he was now President - announced the news to his congregation. He only later found our that Wilson was still alive
e0goL TIL there have been over a million medically supervised injections (of recreational drugs) in a single clinic, without a single death.