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TIL about the Chinese Tiangong space station, which has been permanently crewed since 2022.

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l7vM5 TIL National Tea Day is a popular event celebrated in many countries around the world, on April 21st.
lMKN TIL Blind people experience visual hallucinations when they take LSD.
WEBd TIL Robert Ballard’s mission to find the Titanic, was actually a secret Cold War mission to find and investigate wrecked nuclear submarines Thresher and Scorpion. They finished earlier, so they spent the extra time looking for the Titanic and found it.
VMQnD TIL about Moe Berg, the “strangest man to ever play baseball,” who spoke several languages and found a post-baseball career as a US spy during World War II and was ordered to kill Werner Heisenberg if the Nazis came close to building a nuclear bomb.
QNbPM TIL that the last burial in Tombstone's famous Boothill cemetery (resting place of the dead from the OK Corral) wasn’t until 1953, of a man whose ashes were sent from California COD.