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TIL Unlike most of his astronaut colleagues, Apollo 13 astronaut Jack Swigert was single and had the reputation of being a playboy who liked to party

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JYk5l TIL that the U.S. Constitution gives the Senate the sole power to declare war and that the last time they did was for WWII.
E18ap TIL A young Chinese woman ran away to Beijing to avoid a planned marriage, but was followed by her fiance. After she became pregnant, her fiance abandoned her at a hotel and she narrowly avoided being sold to a brothel. A newspaper editor saved her and she wrote several novels before dying at 30
wLJj7 TIL Sisuqo and Bob Newhart almost co-starred in a 2001 NBC sitcom together.
b606p TIL the Tenerife airport disaster was caused by the pilot taking off without permission. Because of the disaster, the pilot is less regarded in aviation as infallible.
VME14 TIL that Polish intelligence officer Witold Pilecki volunteered for a resistance operation to be imprisoned in Auschwitz in order to gather intelligence about the camp. He organized a resistance movement in the camp, sent information to the Allies about what was happening there, and escaped in 1943.