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TIL that Yuki Togashi, captain of Japan men's national basketball team, is only 1,68 m (5'6 ft) tall.

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PYAJV TIL About Frank Foley- the “British Schindler”. An intelligence officer in Berlin before WWII, he worked as a passport officer and is credited with saving “tens of thousands” of Jews by stamping as many of their passports as he could. He also went into internment camps and hid Jews in his home.
neMnd TIL About the Great Noting, a Giant Void in the space with an underdensity of galaxies in this region
D00P TIL a study at Duke University showed that male rhesus macaques monkeys will give up privileges to be allowed to see a female monkey’s ass: “Virtually all [male] monkeys will give up juice to see female hindquarters … they really value the images.”
4L1b TIL that NASA was concerned that the crew of Apollo 10 would attempt to land on the moon, so they intentionally defueled their LEM so they would be stranded permanently if they did land
wo9P TIL that all of Earth’s naturally-occurring gold is within its core. The gold we mine from the planet’s crust was delivered by meteorites.