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TIL that before her 7-day trip to space, NASA engineers asked Sally Ride if 100 tampons was the right number for the mission

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Yp66A TIL that the Uruguayan navy once use stale cheese as cannonballs once they had run out during a battle against Brazil. The Uruguayans won the battle.
l5kG TIL Around 1000 of the world’s approximately 5,000 languages are spoken solely in New Guinea.
ANkYl TIL that Tums are chalky because they’re literally made of chalk
nekyb TIL Audi had to use more durable horns in Indian-market cars, as their normal horns would have been unable to cope with the amount of honking Indian drivers do.
WkoML TIL that the International System of Units is expected to receive its first overhaul since 1960 in November 2018 - changing the kilogram, ampere, kelvin, and mole to be defined by observable constants - thus making SI wholly derivable from natural phenomena as originally envisioned