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TIL credit cards were first "used" over 5000 years ago on clay tablets.

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WkOVd TIL out of about 550 people who have been to space, only three have actually died there. In 1971, the Soyuz 11 cabin depressurized at an altitude of 104 miles. When unsuspecting recovery crews opened the capsule, they found the cosmonauts dead inside, with blood streaming from their noses and ears.
eYD4 TIL that one of the signers of the U.S. Declaration of Independence had Cerebral Palsy. He signed the document, while holding his right hand with his left, saying “My hand trembles, but my heart does not.”
OGQQe TIL It was never 'Bruce' in ELO's 'Don't Bring Me Down' instead a made-up place-keeper word Groos
l7Ror TIL: Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin commissioned Sergei Eisenstein to make his two-part epic film "Ivan the Terrible". Part I he loved, but Part II he disliked so immensely that he banned it. There was supposed to be a Part III, which would never be made.
KOx4w TIL that the A and B rings of Saturn (the most visually prominent rings) are hundreds of thousands of kilometers wide, but only 5-15 and 10-30 meters thick, respectively.