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TIL There is a gun at the International Space Station and it belongs to the Russians

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NGGQ TIL that the guy in the cowboy hat saving lives at the Boston Marathon bombings today tried to kill himself in 2004 after hearing that his son was killed in Iraq.
yxJJ TIL Alfred Hitchcock once bet a prop man a week’s salary to spend the night chained up in a movie studio, giving him a beaker of brandy to get him through the night. It was laced with strong laxatives. The following morning, the film crew found the poor man crying in a puddle of his own feces.
7rR5X TIL since 1953, the Italian bank, Credito Emiliano, has accepted giant wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano cheese as collateral for business loans.
W7kQN TIL that the shortest recorded war in history lasted between 38 and 45 minutes and it's The Anglo-Zanzibar War, a military conflict fought between the United Kingdom and the Zanzibar Sultanate on 27 August 1896
XE11D TIL American English is more homogeneous than British English. It is more difficult to tell where an American is from in the US than it is to tell where a Brit is from in the UK.