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TIL - Sixty Years Ago, NASA Scientists Found That Women Would Be Better Astronauts. Their Work Was Never Published.

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peL8 TIL The Member of Parliament representing the electorate of “Batman” in Australia is also the Shadow Minister for Justice
VMpjZ TIL kids from the Ho Chunk nation receive $200,000 upon turning 18 and graduating. The money comes from profits from the casinos. Many of the recipients end up blowing the money fast with little to show for it.
d8N9B TIL often dance shoes and tights are supposed to match the skin colors of dancers, but dancers of color have had trouble finding shoes and tights that matched their skin tones
4J7N TIL Cambyses II of Persia used cats to fight a battle. Against the Egyptians in the battle of Pelusium in 525 BC he ordered his men to paint cats on their shields and brought 100’s of cats to his front lines. The Egyptian archers refused to fire on the cats as injuring one was punishable by death.
1aLOV TIL a sundown town is a community that for decades kept non-whites from living in it and was thus “all-white” on purpose.