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TIL South Korea’s first astronaut is a female

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pYJPZ [TIL] Bobby Womack, just two months after Sam Cooke’s passing, married Cooke’s widow, Barbara. Then five years later, Barbara shot Womack for having an affair with his 17-year old stepdaughter, Linda Cooke (Sam’s daughter).
6EGQ7 TIL that in the past 100 years, parts of Houston have sunk by up to 12 feet due to aquifer depletion. This subsidence messes with drainage channels and makes the city prone to flooding.
rN5jx TIL Fungi in Chernobyl appear to be feeding off gamma radiation and are growing towards the reactor core.
op77 TIL That 70 years ago, waves of mass-suicide swept Germany at the end of WWII. Whole families would tie themselves together and go into the water or hang their children first and then themselves.
GGbg TIL the “perfect Aryan baby” chosen by Goebbels and widely circulated in mid-1930s Nazi propaganda was later found to be Jewish