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Today I Learned NASA created a Capture the Flag contest for it's future of manned space travel. On its final flight, Shuttle Atlantis left a small flag on the ISS. This flag was attached to the hatch and was to be brought home by an American spacecraft. It comes home with SpaceX.

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XWwR TIL that Emilio Marcos Palma is the first documented person born on the continent of Antarctica.
Obrg TIL that in 1346 during the siege of Kafa, Mongol forces used plague victims as biological weapons, by flinging the infected corpses over castle walls with catapults. It worked.
8aO4X TIL Just like right/left handedness , we are right/left eyed.
j6BDj TIL Romans wiped their butts with a sea sponge on a stick that they kept in a bucket of salt water or vinegar.
1mjP TIL Stephen King sells the rights to some of his short stories for $1 so that film students can use them to make movies. He calls them his ‘Dollar Babies.’