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TIL India celebrates Children's Day on November 14, exactly nine months after Valentine's Day.

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N7ZWE TIL about Jim LeBlanc, the only man to survive a vacuum. He was a spacesuit technician, and entered a simulated vacuum to test a spacesuit, when his pressurization hose malfunctioned. He passed out in fourteen seconds, but survived with only an earache.
69yY8 TIL the WNBA team the Houston Comets four-peated and won the first four championships in a row from 1997-2000. They would later dissolve the franchise and go bankrupt in 2008
QdOd TIL Mattel used patchouli oil to produce the smell of the He-Man action figure Stinkor
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v1Lax TIL that the written form of the Finnish language was largely created by one man, who was born at an unknown date somewhere around 1510. The invention of the printing press and the first sails to the Americas predate first texts ever written in Finnish.