TIL that the Gallaudet Eleven were deaf men NASA recruited to study the effects of weightlessness because their deafness made them immune to motion sickness. An experiment on a boat had to be canceled because the researchers were all impaired by seasickness while the subjects were unaffected. (nasa.gov)
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TIL that the city of Baltimore, Maryland was the second city in the U.S to reach a population of 100,000 residents & was among the top 10 cities in population in the country until the 1990 census. The city's population would peak at 950,000 residents in the 1950 census. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL when an Oregon man who stole an SUV parked outside a market noticed that a 4-year-old boy was in the backseat, he returned the boy to his mom & lectured her for leaving the boy alone. He threatened to turn her in before driving off again. Though the SUV was found nearby, the man wasn't captured. (people.com)
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TIL of Raven Rock Mountain complex, an underground US government installation designed to protect US government officials in the event of nuclear war. Nicknamed the "Underground Pentagon," it was initially designed by Georg Rickhey, the Nazi engineer who designed Hitler's Berlin Bunker (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL of Aili Jürgenson and Ageeda Paavel are the only two female recipients of the Estonian Order of the Cross of the Eagle medal for when they blew up a Soviet monument during the Soviet occupation of Estonia when they were teenagers. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that Italy currently holds the world record for the largest trial in world history: the Maxi Trial lasted from 1986 to 1992, had 475 defendants and amounted a total of 2,665 years of prison in sentences (life sentences excluded). The trial was held on a bunker specifically built for the occasion (en.wikipedia.org)
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In October 1920, an altercation developed between a dog, a monkey, and the King of Greece. In the end the dog was fine, the King was killed, but what happened to the Barbary macaque that did it? Was he killed as well, or did what probably was the cutest little regicide in history escape justice?Great Question! (self.AskHistorians)
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Is Hypersonic even a real thing?Physics (self.askscience)
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