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TIL Ancient Egyptians would shave off their eyebrows when their cats died and shave off all body hair (including their head) when their dog died to mourn until it grew back.

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N7Dd1 TIL Astronauts use white space suits in space as white reflects the solar radiation. However, while heading to space or coming back, they wear an orange space suit so that, if there's a malfunction and astronauts have to abandon ship, they need to be easy to spot for rescue crews.
4kaw6 TIL that in France it is legal to marry a partner posthumously.
kJrN5 Til a micro ecosystem consisting of seeds and insect eggs was sent to the Moon by Chinese scientists. A cotton plant sprouted, but then it died and the experiment ended.
BBnb TIL in a Fox News interview for Now You See Me, Morgan Freeman fell asleep while co-star Michael Caine was chatting. Freeman responded, “Regarding my recent interview, I wasn’t actually sleeping. I’m a beta tester for Google Eyelids and I was merely taking the opportunity to update my Facebook page”
oB7wK TIL that in 1959, Martin Luther King Jr. made an impromptu stop at the Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation to meet with tribal leaders whom he was "fascinated" by. This visit would later lead Dr. King to speak out against the government's treatment, both past & present, of Native Americans.