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TIL NASA and the German Aerospace Center shoved a big ass telescope inside a 747 so it could work above the clouds.

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PL4J TIL Henry VIII had someone who’s job it was to wipe his bottom for him. They were called ‘Grooms of the Stool’ and Henry VIII had 4 of them during his reign, all of whom were knighted!
m1x6O TIL about Joe Kieyoomia, a Navajo soldier who survived both the Bataan Death March and the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. He was tortured more than other prisoners because he was mistaken for being a Japanese American traitor. After the war he returned home to New Mexico and lived to 77.
1aWk4 TIL that on average, a person preoccupied with money problems exhibited a drop in cognitive function similar to a 13-point dip in IQ, or the loss of an entire night’s sleep.
loV0G TIL North Carolina has, along with the usual 'official state' things, an official beverage, boat, carnivorous plant, dance, dog, frog, freshwater trout, marsupial, tartan, and toast.
xn55 TIL of the Shadow Biosphere. A hypothesis proposing the existence of lifeforms undetected by standard methods. One such being the continuation of the RNA World