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TIL that NASA's Gemini 7 space mission lasted for 14 days. After rendezvousing with Gemini 6 on the 11th day, the two astronauts had nothing to do other than read books in the very cramped cockpit. Frank Borman, the commander, said that the last three days were "bad".

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woyK8 TIL that the directors of Tangled held a “hot man meeting” and had all the women from the studio critique Hollywood men to create the character of Flynn Rider
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x64aw TIL that powered flight has independently evolved four times in history: in bats, birds, pterosaurs, and insects.
69M08 TIL that a Japanese man named Yasuo Takamatsu searches for his wife's remains after she was lost in the 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan.
5E4D TIL that 140 years after an ancient stolen ring was found on a rural farm, a tablet was found at another site (“Among those who bear the name of Senicianus to none grant health until he bring back the ring to the temple of Nodens”). One of the scholars who translated it: Oxford prof. J R R Tolkien