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TIL Astronaut Scott Kelly grew 2 inches after being in space for a year.

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v1AQK TIL Due to its high degree of microporosity, as little as 1 gram of activated charcoal has a surface area in excess of 3,000 square meters- which is the same as 3 Olympic swimming pools, 7 basketball courts, or 230 car-parking spaces.
P1e8e TIL that Hergé's Tintin album "Cigars of the Pharaoh" was made into a play in 1941 called Tintin in India: The Mystery of the Blue Diamond.
oRDwo TIL Jim Irsay is the owner of the volleyball Wilson from the movie Cast Away
pYDx8 TIL that the average American male's corpse can power a biodiesel car for 240 miles, assuming 37mpg. The average weight being 200 lbs, with about 25% body fat. The method has been tested to power boats.
kJG0e TIL that during the wahabi movement the word wahabi was not used in its early days the early Wahabis called themselves either salafis sunni or muwahidun meaning oneness and they were and are influenced by hanbali school of thought