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TIL that astronauts who return to Earth after a long time in space drop things in mid-air and expect them to float.

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64vZ TIL Theodore Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was among twenty-two Harvard students subjected to “horrific experiments” conducted as part of the secret CIA project MKUltra, the same project that produced LSD and whose goal was mind control.
nWDoW TIL in the Lion King that when Rafiki says to Simba 'You are a baboon, and I am not' he is correct: he is in fact a Mandrill and not a baboon.
xVLD TIL that Daniel Day-Lewis once took a 5 year hiatus from filmmaking by moving to Italy and becoming a cobbler’s apprentice.
DAyv TIL Michael the gorilla was taught sign language by Koko, the first signing gorilla. He began signing “Squash meat gorilla. Mouth tooth. Cry sharp-noise loud. Bad think-trouble look-face. Cut/neck lip (girl) hole.” Researchers believed this was a description of the poaching death of his mother.
jNowR TIL in 2014, an amateur detective linked 3 mysterious deaths in London to each other, took his evidence to the UK police, and claimed there was serial killer on the loose. They didn't believe him. The police eventually caught serial killer Stephen Port after his 4th murder.