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TIL that a few hours before their flight, cosmonauts are spun on swivel chairs, tilted on special beds, and deliberately disoriented to prepare for zero-G, especially to handle space sickness caused by leaving the planet

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d6pr TIL that in China, more than 30 million people live in caves. Also that in the stone age there were only 5 million people on the earth, meaning that there are more cavemen now than there have ever been.
pY4jb TIL that the oxygen masks in commercial airliners only lasts 12-20 minutes and the oxygen is made from a chemical reaction that may cause a burning smell in the cabin
Oo5x4 TIL the oldest living animals are black corals over 4,000 years old, nearly as old as the pyramids of Egypt
rNV8w TIL porn movie Debbie Does Dallas (1978) is in the United States public domain because copyright notices were absent in the distribued copies
W74RL TIL in 2010 a doctor and his son just happened to be walking by an apartment building in Paris when a 15-month-old boy fell 80ft (24m) from a seventh floor balcony before bouncing off a cafe awning into the doctor's arms. His catch helped the boy escape "miraculously without a single scratch."