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TIL astronauts on board the ISS need to sleep near a ventilator fan. Warm air does not rise in space so astronauts in badly-ventilated sections end up surrounded by a bubble of carbon dioxide.

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veex TIL that the primacy effect allows us to remember the first items in a list and the recency effect allows us to remember the last items in a list meaning the items in the middle of a list are often forgotten.
e0jd4 TIL: Schiphol Airport(Amsterdam) features a man painting the minutes on a giant clock for 12 hours.
d8QO7 TIL that the planet Neptune, which can only be seen by telescope, was mathematically predicted before it was directly observed for the first time on the night of September 23–24, 1846, at the Berlin Observatory, by astronomer Johann Gottfried.
5PQ TIL the clapperboard you see at the beginning of movie takes is to synchronize the audio and video tracks, because the sound is easy to identify on audio tracks.
6dyX TIL That after the 2006 Amish shooting that left 5 schoolgirls dead the parents of the girls went to the shooter’s house and comforted his widow. A fund was then set up for the widow’s family by the Amish community.