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TIL only three people were trained to pack the parachutes used in Apollo. NASA forbade them from riding in the same car.

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loVdN TIL: If you ever got shrunk down to the size of an ant, not only would everything look bigger to you, but the world would also appear almost a million times darker, light would no longer appear straight meaning that the world around you would be covered in a haze of blurriness and shadow
d8Y9 TIL The highly classified Task Force Black removed or killed 3,500 insurgents from the streets of Baghdad, reducing bombings from 150 per month to about 2 per month.
v1wKR TIL Serial killer Ted Bundy was convicted and sentenced to death in large part on the basis of now-discredited forensic bite mark evidence. Though there was other evidence implicating him and he later confessed to the killings anyway, so no one doubts his guilt.
pYnJp TIL: The striped head cloths worn by pharaohs in ancient Egypt, covering the crown, nape of the neck, and extending down the back were called 'Nemes'. They also had two large flaps, called lappets, which hung down in front of the shoulders and behind the ears.
a8dy TIL: Shindler’s list is banned in Indonesia for being “sympathetic to the Jewish cause”