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TIL Frankie Muniz (Malcolm from Malcolm in the Middle) is now a drummer for kingsfoil and a professional race car driver.

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dbg7 TIL of Nobuo Fujita, the only person to ever drop a bomb on the contiguous U.S. He was later invited back to the town he unsuccessfully bombed but carried his family’s 400 y/o sword to commit seppuku if he received a hostile reception. He was greeted warmly, and donated the sword to the town instead
16A0D TIL: In the over 60 year history of human space flight, only 3 astronauts have actually died in space, it happened in 1971 when their Soyuz 11 capsule depressurized above the Karman line, which is considered as the boundary between the earth's atmosphere and outer space
RjvQ Jet/planes are tested by blasting 800 gallons of water per minute, ice balls, and dead chickens at running engines to assure that they hold their form.
l78vA TIL during the 1942 blockade of Leningrad, where starvation was utilised as a siege strategy, those convicted of cannibalism were divided into two legal categories: corpse-eating and person-eating. The former were sent to prison, while the latter were shot.
p8yYp TIL The Brazilian Expeditionary Force landed in Italy on July 2, 1944, two years after Brazil declared war on the Axis. The BEF landed without weapons, and since there was no arrangement for barracks, the troops remained on the docks. This lack of planning caused controversy in the Brazilian media.