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TIL Self-Defense from a Tutorial Created in 1933

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6RLX TIL that Laika, the first dog in space, did not die peacefully of poison after six days as initially reported, but rather within seven hours of launch, likely due to overheating caused by a faulty temperature control system.
KOZe4 TIL: During the Siege of Leningrad, when hundreds of thousands starved, the authorities distinguished between two legal categories of cannibalism, those who murdered someone in order to eat them, and those who ate of a corpse that was already dead.
6e7l TIL if Earth was 100 pixels wide, the distance to Mars would be approximately 428,000 pixels away.
QJkr9 TIL the male jumping spider goes through an incredible ritual of dancing, vibratory singing and other bizarre motions to attract a female. If the female is not impressed, she eats them.
KY9a4 TIL: Once upon a time, Japan had sewing machines you controlled with a Nintendo Game Boy