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TIL some species of squid can fly up to approximately 50x the length of their own body through the air

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MelAa TIL Johannes Kepler wrote the world's first genuine science fiction in 1609. The novel advanced a Copernican model of the universe, described gravity decades before Newton, envisioned speech synthesis centuries before computers, and presaged space travel three hundred years before the Moon landing.
eGX4 TIL In 1990 a man jumped into a Detroit Zoo Chimpanzee enclosure to rescue a drowning chimp
ORn1 TIL that Transport for London has a history of giving babies born on a train/in underground stations free lifetime rail/train passes
JJrV TIL that in a simulated, long-term, multinational space mission, Russian Cosmonauts sexually assaulted women, routinely broke into fist-fights.
QNenX TIL that Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Sigmund Freud and Tito all lived in Vienna at the same time (around 1913), just within a few kilometres of each other.