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TIL that Afghanistan sent an Astronaut into space

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yVyYJ TIL that a 2016 facial recognition test gave a 95% likelihood, the highest possible score, that a man in a post-WW2 photo was Herschel Grynszpan, a Jew whose assassination of a diplomat was used as an excuse by the Nazis to instigate Kristallnacht & who was long-presumed to have died during the war.
LQPVr TIL the creator of version control software Git, Linus Torvalds, once quipped about the name "git" (which is British English slang for an unpleasant or silly person): "I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First 'Linux', now 'git'."
p8w4G TIL pieces of Skylab were scattered around a part of Western Australia after its reentry into Earth. As a joke, the local government then fined NASA $400 for littering. It went unpaid for 30 years until a Californian DJ raised funds to pay the fine.
1ak4 TIL A kid used his Make-A-Wish to create a video game to help other young cancer patients cope with chemotherapy and fighting cancer.
ywr8 TIL on March 10, 1945, the U.S. carpet bombed Tokyo (specifically the area with homes made of wood and paper) with napalm, killing 105,400 people - putting it somewhere between the death toll of Hiroshima and Nagasaki