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TIL the International Space Station has gravity and everything is weightless only because they are in a constant free-fall around Earth

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d8L19 TIL that Michael King changed his name to Martin Luther King Sr. after a 1934 trip to Berlin where he witnessed the rise of Nazism. In addition to the murder of his famous son in 1968, another son died from drowning in 1969, and his wife was murdered in 1974.
KOGZB TIL Canada used to operate aircraft carriers
My7W TIL that in WWII a British pilot made an emergency landing on an Italian island, only to have the island surrender to him.
P14Ow TIL of Drapetomania, a falsely proposed mental illness based on the belief that slavery was such an improvement upon the lives of slaves that only those suffering from some form of mental illness would wish to escape
VMDmZ TIL in the 1950s an American economist (Armen A. Alchian) figured out lithium was used to fuel Hydrogen bombs just by looking at publicly-available stock prices.