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TIL John Young smuggled a roast beef sandwich into space.

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1kv8 TIL According to the US soldiers who guarded him, one of the few times Saddam Hussein ever looked defeated in prison was when they brought him the wrong cereal. (Fruit Loops. He hated Fruit Loops.)
eL96 TIL that flossing was dropped from the US government’s dietary guidelines because no reliable study exist to prove its health benefits.
6EePW TIL in 1998 an 8 year old boy was electrocuted using a bathroom hand dryer at Pizza Hut in Mississippi. The hand dryer had no ground wire and multiple customers had previously complained about being shocked.
yaxV TIL that since it was discovered 170 years ago, Neptune has completed just 1.04 orbits of the sun.
m1X6v TIL a pregnant belly can explode.