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TIL that you can survive in space without a spacesuit for around 2 minutes, and the thing that kills you isn’t the change in pressure, it’s simply the lack of oxygen.

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JYOQm TIL that between 2006 and 2016, The Killers released a charity Christmas single every year, with one hundred percent of the proceeds going towards (Product) Red, supporting the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
N706M TIL in the shanty "Drunken Sailer," one response to "What shall we do with the drunken sailor?" is "Put him in the bed with the captain's daughter." The Captain's Daughter is another name for the Cat o' Nine Tails, a multi-tailed whip.
a8j7b TIL Ludwig von Beethoven's associates used notebooks to hold conversations with the composer after he became functionally deaf, to the point where historians can roughly piece together whole conversations the composer had based on what was written.
kJvLm TIL that in all 6 elections of the Greater London Council (1965-1986), the leading national opposition party won, with the party in government coming second
d8V5Z TIL: Crying is good for you because emotional/stress tears carry higher levels of stress hormones being flushed out of your system and higher levels of mood-regulating manganese.