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TIL that our universe isn’t old enough for any of our red dwarf stars to have become blue dwarfs yet. So blue dwarfs are still theoretical.

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awYGy TIL that in 1978, a Soviet scientist named Anatoli Bugorski stuck his head in a particle accelerator that sent a beam of protons traveling at nearly the speed of light straight through his head. He survived with half his face paralysed & deafness in one ear, completing his doctorate shortly after.
W7xjo TIL that that in 1982, during the 80's Satanic Panic, Rep. Robert Dornan introduced a bill that would forbid backward messages on music albums. It failed to pass.
jJVp TIL that when the Battleship ‘HMS Coventry’ was sunk during the Falklands War, survivors sang “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” from Monty Python’s Life of Brian whilst waiting to be rescued.
w5jW TIL at the end of World War I Japan proposed a declaration at Versailles that all races be treated equally. The allies rejected it.
m9Qo TIL of Laika, the first dog in space. Her journey was actually a journey into hell. The insulation came off the craft and the dog spent five hours in extreme stress and 100+ heat before succumbing and dying.