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TIL astronaut Wally Schirra would take pictures of his frozen pee as it floated through space, glinting with sunlight. The pee-flakes looked like a beautiful starfield, he said. One astronomer saw a photo & asked what constellation it was, and Schirra said "Jocelyn, that's the constellation Urion."

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78MBx TIL that the Love Death & Robots episode Life Hutch is set in the same universe as the legendary The Outer Limits episode Demon With A Glass Hand. Both are set against the backdrop of Harlan Ellison's Earth-Kyba-War.
4X5Mb TIL that, tired of teaspoons being stolen from the breakroom, a medical institute conducted a study on the rate of disappearance of the spoons. They concluded that "an estimated 250 teaspoons would need to be purchased annually to maintain a practical institute-wide population of 70 teaspoons"
W7MlX TIL that Disney parks generate ~$8.6 billion annually in park admissions alone and dominates the list of the top 20 most expensive theme parks in the world.
nexPP TIL During the Cold War a Soviet Duty Officer whose job it was to report missile strikes to high command, dismissed satellite reports of five inbound missiles, saving the world from nuclear war.
ebXE TIL when Sparta won the Peloponnesian War, the cities of Corinth and Thebes demanded that Athens should be destroyed and its citizens should be enslaved. Sparta refused, and took Athens into their own system. Athens was “to have the same friends and enemies” as Sparta.