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TIL the first (Russian) spacewalk encountered problems leading to reentry deep in Siberia, where the astronauts had to camp in the reentry module overnight to keep bears and wolves at bay.

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yVVPw TIL: During the Civil War, the Confederate army used bat guano, 2.500 pounds a day during the mining operation, to make gunpowder.
DQAdP TIL that a flock of seagulls and a suitcase full of pepperoni got one man banned from a Fairmont hotel for 17 years
nJLG TIL that Japanese people don’t wear surgical masks because they’re afraid of germs but becuase they’re sick and don’t want to spread their own germs to others out of consideration.
Lkgpp TIL Japanese train drivers and conductors purposely point at all the signs they pass as a way to keep focus and prevent accidents. The technique is called shisa kanko and has been in use for more than 100 years.
VB7oQ TIL about The black nun of Moret, Louise Marie-Therese, a French nun whose origins are unknown with a lot of royal connections, who could have been the hidden daughter of the Queen of France