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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.

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JGd8 TIL that Saddam Hussein’s regime genocided an entire race of 500,000 people known as the “Marsh Arabs” after the Persian Gulf War by literally destroying the environment that their entire civilation was built upon, building 32 dams to turn their homes and farms into desert.
PYd5O TIL that it is safe to eat raw eggs in Japan due to their strict control of processes involved in egg production.
VBdMm TIL our brain suffers from the mere proximity of our smartphone: The "brain drain" hypothesis suggests that just having our smartphone nearby can use up some of our mental resources, leaving us with less ability to focus on other tasks.
BrKPd TIL about Cachy, an ironically named poodle who fell 13 floors and fatally hit an elderly woman, killing both instantly. Edith Sola went to help and was fatally hit by a bus. Meanwhile, a man who witnessed Edith's death, had a heart attack and also died.
e1m6 TIL that there is an entire industry to help students cheat to get their degrees by having papers written by unemployed professors. If my students are using it, they don’t get caught for plagiarism because the papers are new. The company blames “the academic system” for being corruptable.