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TIL: being in space destroys more red blood cells

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jNgpM TIL that children's author Roald Dahl singlehandedly took on six German bombers in WWII, developed a medical shunt that saved 3,000 childrens' lives, and was partially the inspiration for James Bond
lnRK TIL that Yuki people, native americans from California, use base 8 instead of 10, because they don’t count with their fingers, but with the space between them
6NlQ TIL Al-Jahiz, an Arabic scholar, wrote about evolution and natural selection 1,000 years before Charles Darwin
9v5Q TIL that, if we could extend our lives indefinitely, humans would die at an average age of 1200 in accidents.
PxEe TIL that human bodies would be unharmed in the vacuum of space. You would survive long enough to suffocate, and would not explode.