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TIL that astronaut helmets have a patch of Velcro inside of them so astronauts have a way to scratch their noses.

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woDo7 TIL: We still make medications from extracts of human urine
7Ge7 TIL Cosmo is over a hundred years old and started out as a literary magazine containing stories and articles from Nobel Prize winners Sinclair Lewis, George Bernard Shaw, and Ernest Hemingway. They didn’t give out shitty relationship advice and horrifying sex tips until 1965.
rR7go TIL Bubble wrap was originally invented to be wallpaper. The creators tried to make plastic wallpaper with a paper backing, but it came out with plastic backing.
4XW0g TIL that Earnest Hemingway was a spy for the US against Cuba from 1942 through 1944
neJaW TIL that the Library of Congress is actively seeking volunteers to help transcribe 16,000 Pages of Suffragist Diaries, Letters, and Documents to create a searchable database where people can read original source documents.