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TIL former American football coach and convicted serial child molester Jerry Sandusky wrote an autobiography titled "Touched: The Jerry Sandusky Story" before his crimes were known to the public.

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dDAx7 TIL The famous "rods from god" concept of a space-based weapons system of orbiting tungsten rods was developed by science fiction writer Jerry Pournelle.
ADoK4 Til: A male ferret is called a hob; a female ferret is a jill. A spayed female is a sprite, a neutered male is a gib, and a vasectomised male is known as a hoblet. Ferrets under one year old are known as kits. A group of ferrets is known as a "business".
vP5Oj TIL on October 18, 1963 French scientists launched a rocket into space, containing a cat named Felicette. She orbited close to 100 miles above earth, then descended safely to the ground via a special parachute. Felicetti has the high honor of being the only cat launched into space thus far.
rRQN4 TIL about the Mirlo rescue. In 1918, an U-Boat attacked a British cargo ship off the NC coast. The ship blew up, spilling oil onto the ocean which caught on fire. The US Lifesaving Service sailed through the fire 4 times to rescue 42 of the 51 aboard.
MeJAb TIL about the “sverdrup” (Sv), a measurement of flow equal to 1,000,000 cubic meters or 260,000,000 gallons per second. The largest ocean current, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, is 125 Sv. As a comparison, all the rivers of the world flowing into the oceans is only about 1.25 Sv.