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TIL Apollo 13 was filmed using zero-g training planes to simulate weightlessness instead of wires and CGI

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9YbpG TIL that ga-ga ball, from that episode of Bob’s Burgers, is a real thing
BrZVW TIL About charities that take used pacemakers from deceased people and donate them to people in third world countries
M7eJB TIL: After seeing The Doors perform in 1967, Iggy Pop was inspired to push the boundaries of his stage performance. He was one of the first musicians to stage dive. On several occasions, he took massive amounts of drugs, exposed himself, rolled around in glass, cut himself, and threw objects.
M7Lg7 TIL of Elizabeth Báthory. She is alleged to have killed more than 600 people in order to drink their blood and bathe in it, ostensibly to preserve her youth.
dDE4r TIL Percieved sourness is caused not only by free protons, but also by protonated carboxyl groups. That means that organic acids will taste sour, even without really low hp. This explains why even some weak bases like sodium acetate taste sour, because the acetate ion will protonate.