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TIL it is theoretically possible to send a paper plane from the ISS to earth, without the planes burning up on reentry. An experiment was scheduled, but unfortunately cancelled.

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J1Xak TIL that until 1970, Royal Navy sailors were given daily rum rations - a tradition dating back to the 17th century to make life at sea bearable. On the final day before it was abolished, many unhappy sailors held mock funeral processions, drank their final rations and threw the rest overboard.
VBLKD TIL that Hernado Williams kidnapped Linda Goldstone while she was on her way to teach a class about natural birth deliveries. He kept her locked in his car at the parking lot of a courtroom while he was attending a hearing for a previous kidnapping charge
6EPlw TIL when Emperor Honorius was told about the fall of Rome he "cried out," thinking his favorite chicken, named Roma, had died. On hearing that it was instead the city Rome that had fallen, Honorius breathed a sigh of relief.
nW6m7 TIL that Lt. Quentin Roosevelt was shot down and killed during the First World War and buried by the German military, making him the only son of a President to die in combat.
wonAP TIL The assassination of Abraham Lincoln was part of a wider conspiracy that also involved the assassination of Secretary of State William H. Seward and Vice President Andrew Johnson. Seward was stabbed in his home but survived, while Johnson’s assassin lost his nerve and never made the attempt.