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TIL Denying the Holocaust in Germany is a crime and can led offenders upto 5 years in jail

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Egvw TIL the Catholic Church owns a media company that publishes pornography and erotica
KYa TIL Haystacks sometimes spontaneously combust if they contain too much moisture.
RRm6 TIl that more Falklands veterans have committed suicide since the war than were killed during it.
dDR5r TIL XMM-Newton, an X-ray space observatory launched by the ESA in 1999 tasked with investigating interstellar Xray sources, performing narrow and broadrange spectroscopy, and imaging of objects in both Xray and optical wavelengths. Funded for 2yrs, with a 10yr design life, is still in good health.
4rxJ TIL There is an esoteric programming language called LOLCODE, in which code is expressed in the style of lolcat speech, implementing lines of code like “HAI,” “CAN HAS [LIBRARY]?” and “KTHXBAI.”