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TIL the Pentagon used to route all data wires through one wall so 9/11 could've been so much worse

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LYZQ TIL shortly after returning from the moon and leaving NASA, Buzz Aldrin had a failed career as an Air Force test pilot, started drinking, had an affair, suffered depression, got divorced, got re-married, got divorced again, and became a Cadillac salesman where he failed to sell a car for 6 months.
meo TIL there is a dress that becomes transparent as your heartbeat increases.
9YKMp TIL that Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II had young infants raised without speaking to them in the 13th century to determine if there was a "natural" language imparted by God. His experiments proven unsuccessful because all the children raised this way died.
R7nY4 TIL The only surviving library of Antiquity is in a villa in Herculaneum. We do not yet have the technology to read the thousands of charred scrolls, but one day we will be able to read them and humanity will regain the lost knowledge.
Bnpb TIL : Two nurses hired within months of each other to work the same shift on the same floor at the same Florida hospital discovered they were long lost sisters from Korea, who had been separated for nearly 40 years.