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TIL the Voyager missions were launched when they did to take advantage of a unique planetary arrangement that allowed flight time to Neptune to be reduced from 30 years to 12. This alignment occurs every 175 years.

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4XWBN TIL of Nikolay Pirogov, a Russian doctor in the Crimean War. While Florence Nightingale revolutionized nursing in the British army, Pirogov founded the discipline of field surgery in the Russian camp. One of the first to use Ether as an anaesthetic, he also invented many other medical operations.
kYQg TIL James Cameron sketched Jack’s nude portrait of Rose for the film Titanic
6W48 Today I learned that no-one is producing antivenom for North Americas most venomous snake, because it isn’t profitable.
woJg6 TIL There was a home-made cryogenic “facility” in Colorado with one person in it since 1993.
nWxRb TIL Burt Ward did a lot of his own stunts while shooting Batman because his stuntman looked nothing like Ward. Ward went to the hospital all four days in a row shooting the pilot.