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TIL: Older generation spy satellites predated any form of digital imaging by decades. They literally exposed film and dropped it back to earth in small re-entry pods.

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MlR8 TIL In Switzerland, it’s illegal to own just one guinea pig because they’re prone to loneliness
pBLG TIL that many films/TV shows, including Gremlins, Desperate Housewives, The Munsters, Beethoven, Deep Impact, and Buffy The Vampire Slayer, as well as music videos by The Offspring and P. Diddy, were all filmed at the same backlot street set at Universal Studios Hollywood, using the same houses.
78O1p TIL: Einhorn in Ace Ventura and Rachael in Blade Runner were both played by the actress Sean Young. Never connected the two until now, laces out Dan.
gMjwD TIL in 1857 Senator James Hammond, representative of South Carolina, released a manual of breastfeeding rules for enslaved women. The manual regulated time spent breastfeeding and rigidly set weaning schedules. The women were forced to nurse the children of their owners as well as other babies.
8pYX TIL that an enormous insect, so large that it was known as a “tree lobster,” was thought extinct but has recently been discovered on a tiny island