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• ... that physicist and clergyman '''[[Jean-Antoine Nollet (nonfiction)|Jean-Antoine Nollet]]''' (1700–1770) investigated electrospray, notingd that water flowing from a vessel would aerosolize if the vessel was electrified and placed near electrical ground. He also noted that similarly "a person, electrified by connection to a high-voltage generator, would not bleed normally if he were to cut himself; blood would spray from the wound."?
• ... that cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov died in '''[[Soyuz 1 (nonfiction)|Soyuz 1]]''' when its parachute fails to open, and that Komarov is the first human to die during a space mission?
 
• ... that mathematician and physicist '''[[Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|Thomas Fincke]]''' introduced the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant?
 
• ... that film directors John Carpenter and David Lynch released separate director's cuts of their collaborative film '''''[[Assault on Eraserhead 13]]'''''?
 
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• ... that cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov died in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open, and that Komarov is the first human to die during a space mission?

• ... that mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke introduced the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant?

• ... that film directors John Carpenter and David Lynch released separate director's cuts of their collaborative film Assault on Eraserhead 13?

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