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TIL It’s impossible to burp in space.

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6Xrw TIL between 1939 and 1989 in Spain about 300,000 new-born babies have been stolen in hospitals by a child trafficking network of doctors, nurses, priests and nuns. They just told the natural parents that their child had died.
Ed7 TIL that the last T-28 Super Heavy Tank from WWII era was found abandoned in a field in 1974
Xdo8 TIL Arland Williams sacrificed his life to save 5 other passengers from the icy waters of the Potomac on Air Flight Florida 90
N78PQ TIL of the Duga Radar in Chernobyl, Ukraine. Part of the USSR's missile early warning system, it is also served as part of the inspiration for the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. seris of videogames
j6M1a TIL an alchemist from the Tang dynasty was searching for an immortality potion and ended up discovering gun powder, which would do the opposite of the sought after potion.