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TIL: Gravity on the ISS is ~90% of the Earth's. It looks like they're on zero-G because both the astronauts and the ISS are in a continual state of freefall (orbiting the Earth).

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bxaZ TIL of Pete Maravich. During an interview in 1974, he said, “I don’t want to play 10 years [in the NBA] and then die of a heart attack when I’m 40.” He died of a heart attack in 1988, at age 40, after a 10 year career in the NBA.
Brlbd TIL of the Strategic Defense Initiative, which was an anti-ballistic missile program, launched by Ronald Reagan in the 80's, that was intended to use lasers and satellites to shoot down nuclear missiles in space. Because of this, the program was commonly referred to as "Star Wars".
8aO4X TIL Just like right/left handedness , we are right/left eyed.
WRLY TIL if you divide 1 by 9801, you’ll get every number from 00 to 99 in the correct order (except 98)
rRM5x TIL that for the theatrical release of "Lilo & Stitch", Disney produced a series of trailers in which Stitch crashes previous Disney movies.