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TIL Barbara Morgan, a US teacher-turned-astronaut, had close ties to both fatal Space Shuttle tragedies

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JAw8 TIL A young Bill Nye worked in a local comedy show in Seattle called “Almost Live!” During one episode the show’s host said “jiggawatts” when he meant say “giggawatts.” When Bill jumped in to correct him the host snapped back, “Who do you think you are, Bill Nye the Science Guy?” The name stuck.
mLbP TIL there is a hypothesis that life originated on Mars and was transported to Earth on meteorites
9ELm TIL Some women in 19th century India were charged a size based “Breast Tax”, and the defiant actions of a single woman helped abolish the oppressive law
Z84vv TIL that the Soviet Union tried to suppress Genghis Khan’s memory in Mongolia by removing his story from school textbooks and forbidding people from making pilgrimages to his birthplace
BrXbd TIL of Geertruida Wijsmuller-Meijer, a Dutch woman who saved 10,000 Jewish children by charming and bribing Dutch train workers and German officers including a young Adolf Eichmann. Research suggests she saved more Jewish lives than all but Raoul Wallenberg.