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TIL that one of Hitler's favourite engineers, Werner von Braun was a pioneer of rocket and space technology in the United States

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9YojX TIL that a Hawaiian folk story told of how a goddess named Kohe-kohe-lele, meaning "Kapo with the flying vagina", saved her sister from being assaulted by a half-man, half-hog fertility god named Kampua'a by detaching her vagina and luring an intrigued Kampua'a to the edge of the country.
vjwx TIL that in 1972, NASA had a highly successful rocket that qualified for a manned Mars mission. It was canceled.
LQegQ TIL that sweatshirts are called that for their original purpose: absorbing sweat.
l71Er TIL Trinity College Dublin's oldest PhD graduated at 84 with her thesis "Harry Potter and the Unconscious Dimension" She wondered, why are the Harry Potter books, which are written for children, so popular with adults?
4XJ45 TIL that in 19th Century London, John Chadwick obsessively believed that cholera was caused by 'bad air' and his actions to 'cure' it lead directly to the additional deaths of fourteen thousand Londoners