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TIL Barry Goldwater feared the religious-right taking over the GOP

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PpZn TIL That NASA thinks humans can probably survive completely unprotected in space for over 30 seconds without permanent injury.
geky TIL: Al Pacino was offered the role of Han Solo, but turned it down because he “didn’t understand the script.” He also turned down lead roles in Die Hard, Pretty Woman, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, First Blood, Beverly Hills Cop, and Apocalypse Now.
VMBbB TIL that because a patch of clovers usually contains around 10,000 plants in 13 square feet, you only have to search an area around the size of an office desk to find a four leaf clover.
mpDO TIL that Julius Caesar’s body was the subject of the earliest known recorded autopsy. Of the 23 stab wounds recorded, only one was potentially fatal on its own; the physician ruled his death due “mostly to blood loss.”
E17pd TIL that at the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, American and Australian aircraft killed hundreds of Japanese troops on life-rafts fleeing sunken transports to prevent them from returning to combat