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TIL During Argentina’s 1976-83 dictatorship sedated political prisoners were thrown – still alive – from military planes into the freezing waters of the South Atlantic.

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4Xv6N TIL that solar eclipses and lunar eclipses always come in pairs. There is always a lunar eclipse 15 days before or after a solar eclipse.
XoKX TIL John Oliver met his wife, an Iraq War veteran, at the 2008 Republican National Convenrion when she helped hide him & the Daily Show crew.
ADbvg TIL With the introduction of small portable solar scopes, hydrogen alpha and calcium filters has now become very popular. H-alpha is in the red end of the visible solar spectrum and it allows one to see solar prominences, filaments, plages and occasional flares on the Sun
Ypm8d TIL: Weightlifter Chua Koon Siong fainted for seven minutes after smashing his face with the barbell during his first lift at the 1981 Commonwealth Weightlifting Championship. Still bleeding, he completed his remaining lifts and won the gold medal with a final lift of 137.5 kg.
w04o TIL I learned Penn Jillette from Penn & Teller has a patented “hot-tub with a jet specially angled for a woman’s pleasure” called Jill-Jet.