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TIL: Katherine Johnson - BY HAND - She calculated rockets trajectories by hand. Buzz Aldrin trusted NO-ONE else. Not even their computers.

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9dNG TIL that ending a sentence with a preposition isn’t wrong in English
wL4G7 TIL A 2014 U.S. study showed one hour of sleep during the daylight saving time raised the risk of having a heart attack the next week by 24%. By contrast, when “falling back,” the extra hour of sleep made heart attacks risk fall 21% the next week.
xo8k TIL H.R. Giger (designer for the ‘Alien’ series) has two bars in Europe with the same amazing biomechanical design he used in the Alien movies.
9YmRB TIL of four interwoven studies of smokers, found that sadness increases cravings, frequency of smoking, and volume of puffs, and also predicts smoking relapses, even decades later.
R7yk8 TIL that the vast majority of wine is NOT vegetarian or vegan