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TIL an astronaut’s diet is managed to minimize flatulence.

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OG0PR TIL at the end of hostilities during WW1, a German U-boat surrendered and was supposed to be towed to France, but the tow cable snapped and the submarine washed up on a beach in Hastings, UK. Thousands of tourists visited to see her until she was broken up in 1921.
ArGa TIL on November 20, 2004, at the annual Harvard–Yale football game Yale students, costumed as a Harvard “pep squad”, gave out placards to a section of Harvard fans which, when raised together, read “WE SUCK”.
pYaLG TIL that Mexico is the top producer of silver in the world, producing 5,600 metric tons in 2021.
jbNa TIL that in 1997, 14 year old Nathan Zohner was able to get 43 out of 50 of his classmates to vote to ban “Dihydrogen Monoxide” for his science fair project. His project aimed to prove that the use of true facts can lead the ignorant public to false conclusions. He won first prize.
89l4 TIL Vince Gilligan offered a terminally ill teenager, Kevin Cordasco, the opportunity to read the final Breaking Bad scripts, in case the cancer were to take his life before the series finale aired.