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TIL: During WW1 British officers had their coffins screwed shut while non-ranking soldiers had theirs nailed shut.

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m1KDP TIL that the Soviet Mars 3 lander was the first spacecraft to attain a soft landing on Mars in 1971, 26 years before the first successful mission of NASA's Sojourner in 1997. It worked, however, only for 110 seconds including 20 seconds of data transmission, a partial gray image with no details.
AQ9o TIL that during WW2 an American pilot fell 20,000 feet without a parachute before smashing through the glass roof of a train station. He survived and lived to 82.
rRM11 TIL that the state of Idaho once dropped beavers in the wilderness on parachutes.
7rbXP TIL of Thomas McKeller, who - at 26 - became the primary muse and lover of one of America's most prolific artists, John Singer Sargent. An African-American, McKeller was recreated solely as white figures in Sargent's public works - including the famed ceiling murals at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts.
J1MKm TIL Sinead O'Connor "Nothing Compares 2 U" was not hers but Prince's, and he was miffed by the legal allowances for nonconsensual music covers in the industry