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TIL that it snows metal on Venus

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nWo59 TIL about Dracunculiasis or Guinea Worm Disease. A parasite that burrows out of your skin causing debilitating pain.
DydP TIL that in the early days of typewriters, Mark Twain stopped using one for letters because of the number of questions he would receive about the machine in response to said letter.
kOg54 TIL The 320th VLA was the only black combat unit to take part in the D-Day landings . The mission of the 621-man assault force was to raise hydrogen-filled barrage balloons to protect assaulting infantry and armor from being strafed by enemy aircraft .
Xr1k TIL there’s a proposal to build an underground park within an old station in New York, lit by daylight transported by fiber optic cables to allow trees and grass to grow
wLVN6 TIL russian luitenant colonel Stanislav Petrov went down in history as the man who single-handedly saved the world from all-out nuclear war when he called out an false allarm when the soviet missile detection system claimed six US nuclear missiles have been launched.