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TIL The source of the term "green room" has been lost to history.

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Y7xoW TIL Kennedy Space Center has a total area of 219 square miles, or 570 square kilometers - roughly the same size as the Isle of Man. Only 9% of the space center is developed, and the rest is wildlife refuge.
pNG TIL that Freddie Mercury is of Indian descent. His parents were from Gujarat (India) and he grew up in Zanzibar and India till his mid-teens.
b6ZkZ TIL King Charles & Prince William always travel in separate planes in case there is a crash, one needs to survive.
oB0aL TIL that Nazis were known for marching extreme distances, this is due to the fact that they were fueled with methamphetamine. More than 200 million methamphetamine pills were distributed to German troops.
EkV0 TIL that the Soviet Army raped over 2,000,000 German women after defeating Nazi Germany - an estimated 240,000 died in connection with the rapes. Antony Beevor describes it as the “greatest phenomenon of mass rape in history”