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TIL of Robert H Lawrence Jr. a Major in the USAF, he was the first black man to be trained as an astronaut, however, he died in a plane crash during flight training and never made it to space.

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dD4wZ TIL Fabio Lanzoni (romance novel covers) sleeps in a hyperbaric chamber as he believes it "reverses the aging process"
9kaD TIL Scientists have been developing a way to teach humans skills via functional magnetic resonance imaging, much in kind of the same way that Neo downloads skills in the movie “The Matrix”
NXvYP TIL the 1812 Overture has a parody that calls for 4 rifles, three Hoover vacuum cleaners (two uprights in B♭ and one horizontal with detachable sucker in C), and an electric floor polisher in E♭.
neGbP TIL that the decline of the Maya may have been strongly attributed to inter-city warfare, and hieroglyphs in 2002 tell the story.
XEENj TIL That on November 11, 1918 on the last day of WW1 , General Pershing sent American troops to fight the Germans to “teach them a lesson” even though he knew an armistice was signed. Over 3,000 Americans were killed, wounded , or captured.