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TIL: Of Penny4NASA a campaign being run to get NASA’s budget increased to at least 1% of the US Federal budget

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OGEWe TIL That King Baldwin IV was one of the most effective leaders and warriors on the battlefield during the crusades, putting a check on Saladin’s forces multiple times. This is despite being afflicted with leprosy and dying at age 24.
b9bNZ TIL that the current primate of the Polish Orthodox Church, archbishop Sawa of Warsaw, worked as an informant for the Polish secret police, reporting fellow churchmen, and used his association with them to climb the church's ranks.
7ByX TIL An inactive diamond mine in Russia (Mir Mine) is so deep, Helicopters can be sucked into it by downward airflow
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0d8Aj TIL that some medieval Indonesian kings claimed royal descent from Alexander the Great