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TIL that the only word in English that ends in -mt is "dreamt", and its extensions like daydreamt and redreamt.

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woPmP TIL of Zambia's space program involving being rolled down a hill & spun around trees in an oil drum as weightlessness training, then swinging on a rope then cut from it, emulating freefall. Taught to walk on their hands as this was "how you walk in space". A 16 yr old and a cat were Mars bound first
D1Qxp TIL there are 20 airports in Antarctica
gkeb TIL that when Adolf Hitler shot himself Helmut Christian Goebbels (son of Joseph Goebbels), mistook the sound of the shot for that of a mortar landing nearby, and screamed “That was a bullseye!”
QJm8k TIL that the famous Nokia ringtone was taken from Francisco de Asís Tárrega y Eixea's Gran Vals
woVBE TIL: The surface layers of the vaginal wall are made of mucosal tissue—similar to the tissue that lines your mouth, nose, and digestive tract.