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TIL the US Air Force uses C130s to drop toys and supplies in Micronesia every Christmas

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wLoNP TIL Paper-towels are NOT recyclable
jNEkR TIL A Cambridge University study found that people who frequently take day-time naps of an hour or longer tend to die younger than those who forego mid-day sleeping. The team thinks it's most likely an underlying health condition that is both causing fatigue, leading to naps and shaving years off
nvkb TIL in 1934 Philo Farnsworth and RCA went to court to establish whose patent marked the beginning of TV broadcasting. In court, Farnsworth’s high school physics teacher testified that the boy, at 14 years old, first described to him the idea for a scanning tube, better known as a television.
mxgyo TIL about Her Grand Ducal Highness Princess Elisabeth, who went from being Governor of Moscow under Tsar Alexander III, to an Orthodox nun, trading her riches away for a tiny monastery.
x6Jag TIL that Voyager 1 is so far from us that the light distance between us is ≈22 hours. That means that Voyager see 22h in the past if it could look at Earth.