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Jun 05, 2020

TIL that two pieces of the same type of metal in space can fuse together seamlessly if they come into contact with each other. Since there is literally nothing between them, the pieces don't "know" that they're separate. This is called Cold Welding.

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May 11, 2020

TIL that the Voyager probes took more than 40 years traveling at 40,000 mph to leave our solar system, but it will be another 40,000 years before they get anywhere near another star

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May 11, 2020

TIL Astronauts Don't Snore In Space; the lack of gravity makes it so astronauts snore less while they’re sleeping...less gravity equals less airway obstruction.

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May 04, 2020

TIL that Reno/Tahoe was the divorce capital of North America in the early 1900s because of its very lax divorce laws and only requiring 24 weeks of residence to file for divorce.

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Mar 26, 2020

TIL Columbus was marooned on the shores of Jamaica in 1503. The indigenous people gave his crew food but were tired of them stealing. After several months of this, they refused to help. Then Columbus used an upcoming blood moon to convince them God was mad at them. They started giving food again.

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Mar 18, 2020

TIL Christopher Columbus used a book of astronomical tables when the next lunar eclipse would take place and use it to warn the indigenous people in Jamaica to treat his crew better or else the moon would rise red. Lunar eclipse happened, and they pleaded Columbus to restore the moon.

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Mar 10, 2020

TIL that some of the retired Concordes have a pilot's hat permanently trapped in the cockpit, inserted during the final flight into a gap that opened up at high speed, but closed again as the fuselage cooled.

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Feb 26, 2020

TIL that a French family had a roof leak in 2011. Upon inspection, the culprit turned out to be a 4.5 billion year old meteorite that had smashed through their roof tile. the family's name? Commette.

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Feb 25, 2020

TIL that American and Russian astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) have different water supplies. Its because the Americans drink recycled urine while the Russians refuse to do so. The NASA astronauts even collect the Russians urine to increase their own supply...

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Feb 19, 2020

TIL that THE FIRST CRIME PERPETRATED IN SPACE was by astronaut Anne McClain, accused of illegally accessing her wife’s bank account during her stay on the International Space Station.

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Feb 02, 2020

TIL that when Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the Moon, he had with him a piece of the propeller from the Wright Brothers' first airplane, the Wright Flyer

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Jan 31, 2020

TIL during the early days of the Soviet space program, one of the "Orbital survivabilty volunteer" dogs, named "Bobik", ran away days before his first flight. His replacement was named ZIB, a Russian acronym for "Substitute for Missing Bobik". He survived.

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Jan 19, 2020

TIL according to a new 3D model of the Milky Way, our galaxy is warped and shaped like the popular brand of potato chip. “I’d say that it is shaped like a Pringle” said Radek Poleski, an astronomer at Ohio State University who helped to create the new map.

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Dec 30, 2019

TIL that during the Apollo 10 mission a turd was found floating around the spacecraft in zero gravity, but none of the astronauts on board would admit that it was theirs.

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Dec 21, 2019

TIL that in the 85 years since Pluto’s discovery, it has yet to complete a single orbit of the Sun. A single Plutonian year is 247.68 Earth years.

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Dec 19, 2019

TIL in 1859, during a massive solar storm, telegraph operators in Boston MA unplugged their batteries and were able to send messages to Portland ME using only the auroral current.

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Dec 04, 2019

TIL that faking the Moon landing in 1969 would have costed nearly triple the amount of actually going to the Moon.

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Nov 21, 2019

TIL Apollo 11 landed on the moon just 66 years after the Wright Brother's first flight.

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Oct 29, 2019

TIL that the earth will become inhospitable to life in 2 - 3 billion years as the sun increases in temperature, pushing the habitable Goldilocks zone to Mars or beyond.

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Oct 01, 2019

TIL that Fractals are patterns of the same order, that can be a different magnitude, and often found in nature.

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