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TIL that NASA engineers created a set of beauty products because they thought astronauts might want to wear makeup during their space missions

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wLp9Y TIL At the age of 25, William Lawrence Bragg—along with his father—were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their efforts in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays. He remains the youngest person ever to receive it in a scientific field, as Malala Yousafzai is the youngest
gMXY4 TIL When you take cocaine, the odds of you having a heart attack in the next hour goes up 24 times or 2400 %
6LEQ TIL a 5 year old child was sacrificed in Chile after the largest earthquake ever recorded. The two charged were released after 2 years, as the judge ruled they “acted without free will, driven by an irresistible natural force of ancestral tradition.”
mx1VO TIL In the 1940s, U.S. Researchers Infected Hundreds of Guatemalans With Syphilis. The Victims Are Still Waiting for Treatment.
J1vOQ TIL that Gwenyth Paltrow once endorsed the practice of steam cleaning your vagina where “you sit on what is essentially a mini throne, and a combination of infrared and mugwort steam cleanses your uterus”. There has been no evidence that steam cleaning has any benefits.