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TIL Astronauts often lose their fingernails after conducting spacewalks

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kJ767 TIL of chinese warlord Zhang Zōngchāng, aka Old Eighty-Six due to a rumor that his erect member was as long as a stack of 86 mexican silver dollars, which were a common currency in 1920’s China.
OGERX TIL In 1999 a heat wave almost forced two nuclear power stations next to Lake Erie to shut down because the temperature of the water in the lake almost reached the 85 degree limit.
Lkrkd TIL about Mobutu Sese Seko, the military dictator of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) from 1965 to 1997. Mobutu was supported by the U.S government as an anti-Communist force in Africa, while his regime is regarded as one of the worst in terms of human rights violations
4NQ6 TIL a viking ship made out of 15 million popsicle sticks sailed from the Netherlands to England
QWGk TIL that in addition to 6 million Jews, about an equal number of Christians, Catholics and Homosexuals were killed in Nazi concentration camps.