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TIL Payload specialists are not part of the regular NASA astronaut corps, relatively unknown to the public, and often flying only single missions

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VGr0 TIL that Salvador Dali made a painting for the prisoners at Rikers Island in NYC that hung in the prisoner dining room for 15 years, when it was moved to the prison lobby for ‘safekeeping’. In 2003, three prison guards and a warden stole the painting.
jYN TIL that when the Spanish asked the Mayans what their land was named, they replied “Yucatán” which literally translates to “I don’t understand you.”
VBjE0 TIL platypuses can sting you
epDjn TIL Last year Missouri Highway patrol accidentally sent out an Amber alert for the "residents of Gotham to be on the lookout for a purple/green 1978 Dodge 3700 GT sedan, with license plate “UKIDME"" From Batman 1989
Blge TIL that when the game ending whistle blew in the 1950 World Cup final hosted in Brazil, a Brazilian fan immediately committed suicide and three others died from heart attacks as a result of shock and shame from losing the final at home.