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

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V8rZ TIL that HP Lovecraft wrote nearly 100,000 letters in his lifetime, the second most number of letters written by anyone in recorded history; the first was French writer Voltaire. Lovecraft said, “I write [letters] exactly as easily and as rapidly as I would utter the same topics in conversation.”
kOW0W TIL Chief Justice Fred Wilson, who presided the Brown v Board of Education trial initially, was holding the opinion that the Plessy v Ferguson verdict should stand. He died in September 1953 and replaced by Earl Warren. Warren made the Racial Segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
loQYN TIL Gordie Howe played 32 seasons of professional hockey in a career that spanned 5 decades
RjG1 TIL that it is incredibly cruel to keep Betta fish in small containers. They naturally should live up to 5 years and the smallest recommended container is 5 gallons. The small cups they are sold and live in are what cause drastically shortened lifespans.
awBMb TIL that one of the richest Venezuelans alive is Hugo Chavez’s daughter, worth an estimated $4B USD