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TIL About the "Glass Cliff": A phenomenon where women are more likely to achieve leadership roles in business and government during periods of crisis or downturn when the risk of failure is highest.

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Jvo4 TIL astronauts have a patch of Velcro inside their helmet so they can scratch their nose.
9Y59D TIL that a NASA intern unknowingly purchased original footage from the Apollo 11 voyage at a government auction in 1976 for $217.77. He found out over 30 years later and sold them for $1.82m at Sotheby’s.
epxNJ TIL that Dominos quit using “The Noid” in their ads after a mentally ill man named Kenneth Noid thought he was being personally persecuted and entered a Domino's restaurant in Georgia with a .357 Magnum and held two employees hostage for over five hours.
nn1b TIL the human race almost became extinct 70.000 years ago because of a dry spell.
p8yV4 TIL Tossing and turning in bed one night in 1934, twenty year old Jerry Siegel came up with the idea of Superman. He teamed up with his friend Joe Shuster and it took them six years to find a publisher for their comics