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TIL in 2007 Islamic scholars in Malaysia spent a year working out how the country’s first astronaut could pray facing Mecca. He was allowed to save his Ramadan fasting till his return

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yQ9xp TIL Summer on Uranus lasts for 47 years, and so does winter.
69vBw TIL Use of amphetamines (such as Pervitin and Benzedrine) to stay alert and active longer was pretty widely used in WWII by both sides.
vj6r TIL pig rectum MIGHT be used in some restaurants as calamari. NPR did a blind taste test and could not tell the difference.
rNaW4 TIL Jerry Lawler of WWE fame began a feud with comedian Andy Kaufman, wrestling him and slapping him on TV while Kaufman shouted profanities and threw coffee in his face. Later, as himself in Man on the Moon, he stated that his feud with Kaufman was staged and the two had actually been very close.
0d6AN TIL about Team 0%, “a group dedicated to making sure that every single level in both Super Mario 1 & 2 have at least one clear on it.” As of right now they are 99.9% done with SM1, with only one more level to clear to “beat” the whole game