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TIL: All men in the UK only got the vote in 1918

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4X4dw SciShow Space takes you into Low Earth Orbit to explain how artificial satellites get up there and stay there -- at least for a while.
D1KxV TIL in 1974, a couple disappeared along with their yacht from the uninhabited Palmyra Atoll while vacationing. Theyd feuded with a man on the island, whose boat was not seaworthy and was out of supplies. 7 years later, the wife's body washed ashore Palmyra, and the man was convicted of her murder.
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