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TIL the US Air Force lost an aircraft worth $1 billion in today's money because General Electric wanted a photo with a bunch of aircraft all close together

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PxEe TIL that human bodies would be unharmed in the vacuum of space. You would survive long enough to suffocate, and would not explode.
AN0yo TIL that a 4-year-old was arrested for witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials. Little Dorothy Good spent 10 months chained in a prison cell after confessing to a local judge that she had a pet snake that could talk.
nvEd TIL cutting your grass releases volatile organic compounds that are harmful to the atmosphere and contribute to smog
6JX7 TIL of the Horseshoe Theory. The idea is that the political spectrum isn’t a line, it’s more of a horseshoe shape. The extreme ends of the left and right are more similar to each other than moderate left and moderate right.
a0eL TIL in 1178, several monks reported seeing fire and sparks shooting off of the Moon. Today, scientists believe the monks witnessed the impact event that made Giordano Bruno crater.