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TIL that children who were injured from a fall before the age of nine are less likely to be scared of heights when they get older.

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Vmbm TIL the Soviets were trying to collect rock samples from the Moon with a probe at the exact same time the Appolo 11 mission was taking place in 1969. While Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were walking on the Moon, their probe malfunctioned and crashed into the surface miles away from them.
VBArG TIL that the first video ever uploaded to YouTube was titled "Me at the zoo" and featured one of the site's co-founders, Jawed Karim, standing in front of elephants at the San Diego Zoo.
LQYDQ TIL of the Disappointment Islands in French Polynesia, so named by a British explorer in 1765 because of hostile natives, they are arid and lacking in water, and nowadays most of the islands are uninhabited
78rb7 Today I learned that the world record for longest handshake is 43 hours and 35 minutes
neVdW TIL Ray Bradbury took 9 days to write his novella, The Firemen, in the basement of a UCLA library on a typewriter rented for 10¢/30 minutes. After being urged by his publisher, he returned to the basement, got to work, and expanded his novella into Fahrenheit 451, which also took 9 days to write