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TIL that in 1984, during Space Shuttle mission STS 41-B, astronaut Bruce McCandless made the first untethered spacewalk as he flew some 300 feet from the Shuttle in the first test of the MMU.

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8e0pa TIL about the Davis Gun, a WW1 era attempt to create a recoilless gun by having two guns fire forwards and backwards simultaneously. A third gun was sometimes attached to the top
0wQap TIL before the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant struggled financially after leaving the military to start a family, working in fields with his wife's family's slaves which was uncommon, but after acquiring a slave, William Jones, he gave him his freedom unconditionally instead of selling him for profit.
GXxj TIL after outlaw Big George Nose was killed, the doctor’s performing the autopsy turned his skull into an ashtray and his skin into shoes. The doctor that kept the skull was the first female doctor in Wyoming and the doctor that kept the shoes wore them to his inauguration as governor of Wyoming
KOVxE TIL that Hitler was a struggling painter before joining the Nazi Party. He was told that he was hopeless in art.
W71P4 TIL sand dunes can produce a low, audible droning sound