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TIL having sex can offer temporary relief for nasal congestion

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x6EAo TIL that fabric from the original 1903 Wright Flyer has orbited the Earth, landed on the Moon, and flown on Mars.
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oBZmY You obviously can’t see it when you gaze up at the night sky, but Earth has a whole lot of junk floating around in orbit. There are all kinds of reasons why debris ends up orbiting Earth and many of the objects are discarded pieces of other spacecraft or long-dead satellites which have no use to anyone. Sometimes these objects crash into each other and create even more, smaller pieces of space junk which can damage active satellites and even pose a danger to astronauts.
Lk57V TIL A Roman Amphitheater collapse in 27AD killed 20,000 people and led to the Roman Senate passing a law requiring the foundations of all new amphitheaters to be inspected prior to use.
0BPv TIL that in 1315, Europe suffered the Great Famine, which ended up killing millions of people, reduced people to cannibalism and child abandonment, and lead to the restructuring of much of European society, politics, and culture.