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TIL the Holodomor Genocide was a man made famine that killed millions in Soviet Ukraine from 1932-1933.

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1aRVP TIL that the extinct Carolina parakeet may have become poisonous from eating toxic seeds, because cats were noted to die after eating the birds
b9DA9 TIL Planes Have Windshield Wipers
WRGB TIL that vitamin A enriched rice, developed nearly 15 years ago, could have prevented hundreds of thousands of cases of childhood blindness. It has never been used due to concerns over GMO foods.
Nx66 Til a Bugatti Veyron at top speed for a minute will take 47000 liters of air, as much as you breathe in 4 days
6gAw TIL the urination system on the Apollo space suits involved a condom that came in 3 sizes: “small,” “medium,” and “large.” When astronauts only took the “large,” they were renamed to “large,” “gigantic,” and “humongous.”