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TIL i learned about the russian cosmonaut who fell to his death cussing

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pNaQ TIL that when the Nazis closed down the Polish universities and executed professors, surviving academics set up illegal ‘underground universities.’ One of those educated by an underground university was future Pope John Paul II
AvAo TIL: The CIA is supposed to release the JFK assassination records to the public no later than 10/26/2017
ZpPVQ TIL that contrary to popular belief, the Mesopotamian god Dagon has nothing to do with fish or the sea, and the portrayal of him as a fish god based entirely on the medieval belief that his name was derived from the Hebrew word for fish, "dāg", which was debunked in the 1920s
a8oNL TIL that despite the name millipede literally translating to "thousand foot", the first known species to actually have 1,000 legs was not discovered until 2020. There are 12,000 species known, there are estimated to be up to 80,000 species on Earth, and they have existed for over 400 million years.
x6oJk TIL that doctors at Yale University found that make-believe games are the "forerunners of the important capacity for forms of self-regulation including reduced aggression, delay of gratification, civility, and empathy.”