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TIL that the Universe may exist inside a black hole.

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MZDa TIL 7 members of an isolated Indian tribe emerged from the Amazon and made contact with people in a village near the Peruvian border because “violent attacks” by outsiders had driven them from the forest. Later, details emerged that their elder relatives were massacred and their houses set on fire.
X0O4D TIL of Deli Mike, a Turkish Airlines Airbus A340 notable for her temperamental behavior. Known for “pranking” passengers and crew, she would turn lights on and off and refuse to retract the landing gear seemingly at random. One story went that staff fixed a faulty instrument panel by talking to her.
QZxM TIL: That there is an alternate timeline comics series in which Bruce Wayne is killed prompting his now insane mother to become a female Joker and his father to become a much darker and more violent Batman.
grEBL TIL that Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to travel to space on June 16, 1963, when she orbited Earth as part of the Vostok 6 mission. She remains the youngest woman to fly to space, the only female astronaut/ cosmonaut to make a solo space journey.
W7xdN TIL that the first woman to serve in the United States Senate was also the last member of Congress to be a slaveowner.