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TIL Astronauts, during spacewalks, face the danger of their fingernails detaching from their nailbeds, a condition called “fingernail delamination”

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jlvR TIL Pedro, the son of King Afonso IV of Portugal, was forbidden by the king to marry the woman he loved. King Afonso had her murdered to keep them apart. When Pedro became king, he hunted down her assassins and had their hearts torn out, symbolic of what they had done to him
YpXbW TIL the green falling code in The Matrix is just loads of sushi recipes
0ZW1 TIL that along with Leo, Johnny Depp has never won an Oscar.
b6Poj TIL: “Laika” is the name of husky-like breeds of dogs in Russian … but the famous Space Dog—whose name was Laika—was just a mutt, not one of those breeds.
Rv84 TIL after having his arms ripped off by a tractor, a teenager called for help using a pencil in his teeth, and then sat in the bathtub so he wouldn’t get blood on the new carpet