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TIL that Helen Keller was put on the FBI watchlist

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GN61 TIL that freeze-dried ice cream only made one mission to space. In 1968 it had it’s first and only use in space during the Apollo 7 mission.
kOvx5 TIL one of the animators from Robot Chicken (and PES) uses a modified NES Power Glove as a custom animation tool
p8p58 TIL that the Chimney Sweepers Act of 1788 was a British Act of Parliament passed to stop child labor, as boys as young as four were being used as chimney sweeps. The Act raised the minimum age to eight years old.
rR77d Coffee makes 30 percent of people poop
0dQWN TIL about the Chandelle, an advanced flight maneuver where an aircraft makes a climbing turn at a maximum performance level to gain the most altitude while reversing direction, used in both civilian aviation for proficiency and in military training for evasion.