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TIL that after the astronauts onboard Skylab 4 forgot to communicate with ground control for one orbit, it was reported in the media as a "strike" or "mutiny", despite the astronauts denying that it was intentional.

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DQ5rv TIL that Unicode includes the character 🕴, known as "Man in Business Suit Levitating"
E1JaX TIL When the Beijing 2008 Olympics Flame arrived in Pyongyang, a thousand full-dressed Koreans and Chinese overseas students greeted it at the airport. The Pyongyang leg of the torch relay started from the Tower of the Juche Idea and concluded at the Kim Il Sung Stadium
b94np TIL the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 that started out as a mild flu and then a second wave hit that killed 3% of the world's population, even healthy people. This was more deaths than WWI.
aw4OJ TIL Wages today are lower for the Average American Worker (Adjusted for Inflation) is earning less than Workers in 1973, despite Working More and are more Productive.
p8yxA TIL the longest serving member of the International Olympic Committee is Dick Pound, a former Olympic swimmer for Canada