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TIL, at age 39, that staplers have different settings to fold the staples either inwards or outwards

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JY1n8 It’s never happened, and NASA feels confident that it never will. For one thing, astronauts generally don’t float free. Outside the ISS, they’re always attached to the spacecraft with a braided steel tether, which has a tensile strength of 1,100 pounds. If it’s a two-person spacewalk, oftentimes the astronauts are also hooked to each other.
jNyyN TIL that Sir Alex Ferguson - one of the greatest managers in sports history and the most decorated football manager of all time - self-identifies as a socialist.
ZplG TIL that in Yakutia Russia, temperatures become so cold that trees explode, blue sparks fly from falling timber, mercury freezes and exhaled breathe is transformed into a shower of ice crystals called “the whisper of the stars”.
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