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TIL 3 Body Problem (TV series)

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Mw8m TIL astronauts don’t float because they’ve escaped Earth’s gravity (they still experience 90% of Earth’s gravity), but because they are in free fall, constantly falling back to Earth
aXLy TIL that the yellow “sweat” stains commonly found on shirts in the armpit region are actually caused by a reaction with deodorants rather than sweat.
N7WpQ TIL that Al-Qaeda were surprised by the collapse of the Twin Towers. Among those planning the attacks, Osama Bin Laden had been the most "optimistic", due to his experience in engineering, and had predicted that the fire would collapse the area where the planes hit and all the floors above only
Dmbe TIL a 12 year old girl was handcuffed, booked, and fingerprinted for eating french fries in a subway
VWxZ TIL Susan B. Anthony once said that the invention of the modern bicycle “has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world” and called it the “freedom machine”