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TIL that one of the oldest men alive was pissed off at his president for cutting off tobacco sales during the shutdown and all he asked for on his 116th birthday was a pack of cigarettes.

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ADLRa TIL that fried chicken originated from Scotland.
VMAyZ TIL that shortly after assuming power, Hitler used the burning of the German Parliment, the Reichstag building, to declare a national emergency crisis, consolidate power, and begin taking away civil liberties.
4Zj6 TIL Han Solo was frozen at the end of ESB because they didn’t know if Harrison Ford would agree to do the next movie.
v8W7 TIL that the British royal family costs the average UK taxpayer less than $1 per year.
woJn8 TIL astronauts on board the ISS need to sleep near a ventilator fan. Warm air does not rise in space so astronauts in badly-ventilated sections end up surrounded by a bubble of carbon dioxide.