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TIL: nothing starts with n and ends with g.

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NXbkQ TIL the snow in the wizard of oz was pure asbestos.
VM57Q TIL about the Antonine Plague of 165 to 180 AD, also known as the Plague of Galen that devastated the Roman Empire and caused up to 2,000 deaths a day in ancient Rome
QNMRE TIL about Rip. A ww2 search and rescue dog who was awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery in 1945. He was found in Poplar, London, in 1940 by an Air Raid warden, and became the service's first search and rescue dog. He is credited with saving the lives of over 100 people.
b6PQZ TIL that Catherine Parr was 31 years old and twice widowed when she married 52-year-old King Henry VIII in 1543. Three years later, she became a widow for the third time. A few years after Henry’s death, she married Thomas Seymour, the brother of Henry’s third wife.
k7B4 TIL Andy Weir, the author of The Martian, was so keen on getting every detail right, he wrote programs to calculate the orbital paths of spaceships that appear in the book.