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TIL of the $23 million dollar toilets designed by NASA for deep space missions. With odor control being a serious issue, NASA pays certified sniffers to smell the toilets after they've been used to evaluate odor-control measures. The lead engineer calls them the "unsung heroes of the space program".

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1B1r TIL The first Native American who met the Pilgrims at Plymouth Colony walked into their encampment and greeted them in English.
g1D9 TIL that your poop is not mostly fiber. By mass, it’s mostly dead and alive bacteria. Mostly alive.
16vJW Today I learned there is a city in Romania named ‘23 August’ after the 1944 royal coup
j6oQa TIL that "poetry" is named after the writer Edgar Allen Poe.
RRy8 TIL there is a 3rd order enclave of India inside of Bangladesh. This piece of land, which belongs to India, resides inside a piece of Bangladesh which resides inside a piece of India that resides about 10 miles inside of Bangladesh.