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TIL that due to the effects of zero gravity, the heart becomes 9.4 percent more spherical in space

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NX5J8 TIL former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim's voice was used to record the longest audio greeting to extraterrestrials on the Voyager Spacecraft; approx. 7 years after the spacecraft was launched, Waldheim was publicly accused of participating in war crimes by famed "Nazi Hunter" Eli Rosenbaum
Oo8ee TIL Singer Tina Turner relinqished her US citizenship in 2013 and is now a citizen of Switzerland where she has been living since 1994.
78GBb TIL Jagadish Chandra Bose found that plants were visibly reactive to all manner of stimuli: flashes of light, changes in temperature, plucking, pricking, screaming. Plants became numbed by drugs and drunk from alcohol.
l7JZ5 TIL: "Silhouette" is derived from the French finance minister, Étienne de Silhouette. de Silhouette's strict economies made his name synonymous with anything done/made cheaply. Before photography, silhouette profiles cut from black card were the cheapest way of recording a person's appearance.
ZPpY TIL that Alien (1979) was covered in ‘copious’ amounts of K-Y Jelly to give it a 'slimy’ effect. Also Predator’s (1987) blood composed of K-Y Jelly mixed with green glow stick fluid.