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TIL “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” is a famous line from Franklin D. Roosevelt's first inaugural address. Roosevelt said this in his speech to help Americans regain faith in themselves during the Great Depression.

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45Ro TIL there is a group of wolves in British Columbia aptly called the “sea wolves” that gets most of its food from the sea, and will even swim up to 8 miles to reach islands for food.
neYXB TIL that the common method for a spacecraft to shift between two orbits is called a Hohmann Transfer, and that the guy who calculated it (in 1925) was inspired by a science fiction book written in 1897, which gave a generally correct explanation of the concept of orbit trajectory
aO9b TIL that the phrase “Die Hard” was coined in 1811 by an English officer during a battle in the Napoleonic Wars. He was wounded, but refused to leave the field, telling his outnumbered regiment to “die hard” against the French troops.
x6pPB TIL The Maimonides Dream Telepathy experiments were real scientific studies conducted during the 1960s and 1970s at the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. Led by researchers such as Dr. Montague Ullman and Dr. Stanley Krippner, the experiments aimed to investigate the possibility of te
yo68 TIL The man who wrote what is considered the first significant self help book in 1859, Samuel Smiles, is the great-great-grandfather of Bear Grylls.