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TIL astronauts have a patch of Velcro inside their helmet so they can scratch their nose.

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oB5g8 TIL that Apollo astronauts may have found the oldest earth rock we know on the moon in 1971
QNXrM TIL that narcissistic athletes perform better in high-stakes, highly competitive situations and worse in low-stakes situations. And non-narcissistic athletes perform worse in high-stakes situations.
vPbEx TIL that audiences were so convinced that the film "The Battle of Algiers" was newsreel that the American distributors put a notice that "not one foot" of newsreel was used
PYyXV TIL that around 11% of the world population was killed during the Mongol invasions.
PYNKn TIL about two faced "Janus" cats, named after Roman god who had two faces; one looking into the past, the other the future. They don't usually survive more than a day, but a 2 faced cat named Frank and Louie defied the odds and lived for 15yrs, even appearing in the Guinness World Records book 2006.