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TIL that the brainwaves of Dr Carl Sagan’s wife, Ann Druyan, are included in the Voyager 1 & 2 probes, making them the only human thoughts to ever leave the solar system

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ZjVG TIL when the US Navy refused to cooperate during the filming of the movie Crimson Tide, filmmakers waited outside Pearl Harbor for a submarine to head to sea and chased it with a boat and helicopter to get the shot of it submerging.
dLV8 TIL - In athletics if you move as the gun sounds, you have considered to have false started - as the human brain cannot hear and process the noise of the starting gun in under 0.10 seconds
R7nD8 TIL that the 17th century Ottoman Sultan Murad VI made the consumption of coffee a capital offense. In addition to closing Istanbul’s many coffeehouses, he would disguise himself as a commoner and stalk the streets of Istanbul with his executioner, beheading any coffee-drinkers that he caught.
xeok TIL that, in Super Mario Bros 3, chain-chomps will break free from their chains after 50 lunges.
l6Qr TIL that the number of Chinese causalities killed by the Japanese far outnumbered the Jews killed in the holocaust