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TIL Thor's hammer only weighs 42.3 lbs.

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1adn4 TIL about St. Pierre and Miquelon, a territorial collectivity of France only 16 miles from Canada where the locals speak French, use the Euro and have French citizenship.
6R1w TIL an astronaut threw a boomerang while in a space station and it returned to him. As long as there is air to provide the necessary forces, a boomerang will return to its thrower, even in the weightlessness of Earth’s orbit.
awW0J TIL that Disney renamed the film Moana to Oceania in Italy to avoid confusion with the celebrated Porn Star Moana Pozzi
1KmO TIL on January 22, 1943, the temperature in Spearfish, South Dakota, changed from -4°F to 45°F in just two minutes, setting a world record. This was caused by a Chinook wind, which increased the temperature eventually up to 54°F before dying down, dropping the temperature back to -4°F.
ANZQ4 TIL Woman are 14% more likely to survive a gunshot wound than men.