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TIL Leonard Nimoy photographed a book full of full figured women

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vBm8 TIL in the real story of Mulan, when Mulan returns home, she finds her dad long dead, her mom remarried, and the emperor makes her his sex slave
rmgM TIL The oldest parachute design appears in an anonymous manuscript from 1470s Renaissance Italy (over 400 years before the airplane), showing a free-hanging man clutching a cross bar frame attached to a conical canopy. As a safety measure, four straps run from the ends of the rods to a waist belt.
R8P4 TIL police are using a medical diagnosis not recognized by the AMA or APA, to explain deaths while in custody.
X0JR6 TIL Payload specialists are not part of the regular NASA astronaut corps, relatively unknown to the public, and often flying only single missions
JEVm TIL Earth is believed to be home to approximately one trillion species, with only a fraction of one percent actually documented.