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TIL that all US astronauts since 2011 have to speak Russian.

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4W05 TIL one man is responsible for why women smoke, why we eat bacon & eggs at breakfast, why there’s fluoride in tap water, and why the US says it’s “spreading democracy” during war. He disliked the word “propaganda” so he coined the term “Public Relations”
DQ04J TIL Korean astronauts eat a version of kimchi that has been radiated to kill all of the microorganisms
grL7 TIL Billy Joel was a boxer. He quit after breaking his nose in his last fight, ending his career at 22-2.
LkJWd TIL the British Royal Navy allows sailors to have facial hair, but only if they can grow a "sufficiently thorough beard" within 14 days.
VBr4p TIL: CERN still uses tape drives to store data, as only tape drives can store the massive amounts of data generated by the Large Hadron Collider. Each tape contains 8.5 terabytes of data and can be bought as a gift from their giftshop.