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TIL about Third Man Factor (or Sydrome). A phenomenon where explorers, or people in a survival situation, see and or feel a person/ presence that gives them guidance and support at a critical moment in their survival.

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kyRE TIL in 1958, the Chinese captured a US Sidewinder missile just four days after it was introduced into combat when it got stuck in a Chinese jet during a dogfight with Taiwan aircraft. It was reverse-engineered into the Soviet AA-2 Atoll (K-13) missile and used against US planes in Vietnam.
p89x8 TIL that Pablo Picasso’s full name was Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso.
VBk14 TIL: Timon & Pumbaa from The Lion King is based on an actual symbiotic relationship between these two species.
D1jJg TIL that Thomas Aquinas, in his 'Summa Theologica', wrote that eating breakfast meant you committed the sin of 'praepropere' (eating too soon); it was associated with gluttony and the presumption that these people had lusty appetites.
p8LDb TIL despite modern connotations of death as evil, the Greek god Hades was actually more altruistically inclined. Very few individual aspects of his personality were recorded, as Greeks refrained from giving him much thought to avoid attracting his attention.