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TIL Britain has the safest AC power plugs in the world

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6nlw TIL that Swedish astronaut Christer Fuglesang was not allowed to bring reindeer jerky with him on board a shuttle mission as it was “weird” for the Americans so soon before Christmas. He had to go with moose instead.
ykBv TIL The 52 Playing cards in a deck represent the 52 weeks in a year. The 4 suits represent the 4 seasons.
P116J TIL Dame Judi Dench was in The Chronicles of Riddick, because Vin Diesel wanted to work with her. The writers has to re-create a role to fit her: Aereon, an Elemental alien ambassador. She called filming "tremendous fun", though she "had absolutely no idea what was going on in the plot"
P1QPg TIL: the genes that helped people survive of the Black Plague are now causing the decendants of those survivors to develop autoimmune diseases.
oRNrW TIL that in World War II, shortly after Pearl Harbor, Japan actually captured and held a couple of the westernmost Aleutian Islands in Alaska for about a year. Retaking them was a battle with more than 1000 casualties on either side.