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TIL The Guardian is so accepting of its nickname Grauniad that they have set up an internet address for that misspelling - it sends you to The Guardian's own page.

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4kOJN TIL if you stacked the wealthiest individual on the planet’s money, in $100 bills, it would extend past the Earths atmosphere.
RxW6 TIL the German V-2 Rocket developed in 1944 was the first man-made object to enter space. Also the team which developed the V-2 were the key to land the first man on the moon.
BpWb TIL the Pope worked as a bouncer to pay for school.
DQgZr TIL of a German cave, Hohle Fels, where some of the oldest human artifacts have been found. A 35,000-40,000 year old human figurine and a 42,000 year old flute have been found there.
MDmB TIL that in the movie “The Program” there was a scene where football players laid in the middle of the highway to prove they have nerves of steel as vehicles avoided them. In real life this stunt was copied but vehicles ran over each person instead of avoiding them.