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TIL Ronald Reagan's pet name for his wife Nancy was "Mommie Poo Pants"

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OGlZ4 TIL Romans organized many expeditions in subsaharan Africa, western expeditions, which crossed the Sahara desert, reached as far south as modern Nigeria while eastern expeditions, which followed the Nile upstream in search of its source, went as far south as Uganda and likely reached Lake Victoria
LQXQd TIL David Bowie's 'Space Oddity', released in July 1969, was banned by the BBC for the duration of the Apollo 11 mission.
e0oLE TIL that a Peruvian volcano eruption in the year 1600 killed 30% of the population in Russia
grOv4 TIL the Flying Hamburger was Germany's first fast diesel train right before Hitler took power. It attained a speed of around 160 km/h. It was the fastest regular rail connection in its time. When Germany invaded Poland in 1939 and started stockpiling fuel, it was put out of commission.
1VBr TIL In 1977 we received a signal from deep space that lasted 72 seconds. We still don’t know how or where it came from.