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TIL that Schrödinger did not believe in the possibility of a cat being simultaneously both dead and alive. His thought experiment was meant to criticize the absurdity of the existing view of quantum mechanics.

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5YWxP TIL Jim Jones, the cult leader infamous for the mass suicide of Jonestown, was a racial integreationist and helped racially integrate various types of public places in Indianapolis in the 60s, and got a Humanitarian award for it.
d4YK TIL That astronaut Frank Borman suffered diarrhea onboard Apollo 8 resulting in faecal matter floating around the spacecraft cabin.
4ky66 TIL when Tom and Jerry's "The Two Mouseketeers" (1952) featured a guillotine execution scene, it wasn't just historical fiction - France was still actively using the guillotine for executions until 1977, with the last execution being Hamida Djandoubi.
W7omX TIL Astronomer Edward Barnard discovered Amalthea, the fifth satellite of Jupiter, using an eyepiece that yielded 520x on the 36-inch Lick Observatory telescope. Barnard observed Saturn's moon at 2,600x at the highest but 1000x power is enough to show a disk
PMAG TIL that bamboo can be used to make extremely soft yarn for weaving, twice as soft as cotton.