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TIL that most of the heat a spacecraft encounters re-entering earth’s atmosphere is caused by compression, not friction.

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KO8VB TIL tibetans have more than twice the amount of forearm blood flow due to sharing more than 6% of their genes from Denisova hominins
m1pVx TIL that before the California Gold Rush, there was one in North Carolina in 1799! A 12-year-old named Conrad Reed found a 17-pound gold nugget while playing in a creek and used it as a doorstop for three years. When his family realized its value, they started the first gold rush in America!
yPoJ TIL More West Point graduates have been presidents of foreign countries than the United States
kO885 TIL that, by law, the Metric System is the preferred measurement system in the United States.
xerk TIL PG-13 movies are allowed one non-sexual use of “fuck” per script.