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TIL out of about 550 people who have been to space, only three have actually died there. In 1971, the Soyuz 11 cabin depressurized at an altitude of 104 miles. When unsuspecting recovery crews opened the capsule, they found the cosmonauts dead inside, with blood streaming from their noses and ears.

Zpwev TIL that the late singer Tony Bennett's first encounter with wife Susan Crow was in 1966, when he met her mother and father. Susan's mother was pregnant with her at that time. Bennett was 40 years old.
D1vav TIL In LOTR from Bag End to Mt Doom, Frodo travels approximately 1,800 miles in 185 days. That’s an eminently achievable average of 9.73 miles each day. In the Hobbit, Bilbo, on the other hand, travels a total of 950 miles in 172 days — an average of just 5.52 miles per day.
yQl7J TIL that a French town honored a toilet as a war hero for over 25 years. The town's mayor showed General Patton a grave in 1917, unaware that it said 'Abandoned Rear', meaning a latrine. When Patton came back during World War 2, the latrine was still being maintained as a hero's grave.
d8Q9j TIL that there is a country called Molossia that is inside Nevada, which consists of 30 humans and 4 dogs, with a currency that is made out of casino chips, and is at war with eastern Germany.
kJoKB TIL from the 1990s through 2021 the NFL used a method called "race-norming", which assumed Black players started out with lower cognitive function, as part of a dementia test to determine payouts in brain injury settlements.