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TIL if the Queen of England moves her purse from her right arm to her left that a signal for her staff to come interrupt her conversation.

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6RVQ TIL that the average age of NASA engineers at the time of Apollo 11 was 28. Nowadays it’s 47
Bgp8D TIL That Australia is Wider Than The Moon
aweNM TIL The Chinese Paddlefish, One Of World's Largest Fish, Has Gone Extinct
R7x16 TIL researchers did an experiment in 1999 on rats to see how long they could live without sleep. They mostly lasted 2 weeks of this torture before succumbing.