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TIL that NASA does not have an official protocol for what to do with an astronaut’s body if one were to die in space.

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4Dvg TIL that on their trip across the continent, Lewis & Clark came across a tribe that knew how to say “son of a bitch” in English.
Wkl8A TIL in 2017, a group of poachers broke into France's Thoiry Zoo Rhino enclosure, killed a rhino named Vince, and sawed off one of its horn using a chainsaw.
VMBvB TIL: Detroit, synonymous with the auto industry, has a driverless monorail system that moves about 2.4 million people a year.
eprk4 TIL that MacWeek magazine was hated and loved at Apple. While many denounced the publication as "MacLeak", they also used the media outlet to anonymously disclose information, get attention to their own projects, or find out what was happening at their own company.
GAgmj TIL: a German SS commander, Priebke, was personally responsible for murdering 335 Italians, confessed. escaped to Argentina, eventually taken back to Italy, tried, convicted, and died happily at home at the ripe old age of 100.