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TIL that France sent the one and only cat into space to gauge the effects of spaceflight on living creatures in the hopes that humans could follow

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1aQV TIL the world’s oldest functioning light bulb was built in 1900 and is still burning.
Wkvnd TIL the QWERTY keyboard layout probably allowed early typewriter salesmen to impress their customers by being able to easily type out the example word "typewriter" without having learned the full keyboard layout, because "typewriter" can be spelled purely on the top row of the keyboard.
OokER TIL truly ambidextrous people make up 1% of the world's population. However, left-handed people are able to use their right hand almost as well as their dominant left.
neyaW TIL a study on cutting in lines found that one person cutting in line has a 54% chance that others in the line will object, and that this jumps to 91.3% when it’s 2 people cutting in line.
D1pnv TIL that Before the Civil War, uniforms were custom-sewn. Such a massive number of people had to be outfitted that uniforms needed to be mass produced. Soldiers were put into subtypes: large, medium, and small—classifications that eventually found their way to civilian clothing.