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TIL China is banned from the International Space Station partly because of a fear that Chinese taikonauts will hack sensitive NASA equipment if allowed on-board.

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xyR0 TIL that Grace Kelly and her family had to provide Prince Rainier of Monaco with a dowry of $2 million in order for the marriage to go ahead.
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ymJv TIL 19 Ph.D’s were given an incorrect formula for determining the volume of a sphere and asked to verify it by filling the sphere with water and measuring the volume of the water, all but one clung to the incorrect formula despite empirical observations.
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