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TIL astronauts have a patch of Velcro inside their helmet so they can scratch their nose.

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pYNMb TIL about the 200th Coast Artillery, a New Mexico National Guard unit during World War II. Of the unit's 1,816 men, 829 died during the Philippines Campaign of 1941-1942, the subsequent Bataan Death March, or because of the effects of their captivity
wL77o TIL that California’s Death Valley contains the lowest point in North America — a surreal landscape of vast salt flats. The basin sits 282 feet (86 m) below sea level where a temporary lake may form after heavy rainstorms.
Mexb0 TIL of the Frog Boys, a group of South Korean children who went missing while frog hunting. 11 years later their bodies had been discovered, with police concluding that they died from hypothermia. However, a later autopsy revealed them to have been murdered, one with a shotgun blast to the head.
JYagk TIL in 2004, Seth Putnam -- vocalist of the grindcore band Anal C**t, whose offensive song titles included "You're Gay" and "You're in a Coma" -- overdosed and ironically lapsed into a brief coma. He later stated that actually being in a coma "was just as gay [and] fuckin' stupid as I wrote it was."
OoJ5L TIL that Chimpanzees are the only primates apart from humans observed to not only have territory but also defend that territory, and go to war against other owners of territory for control over it, leading to (relatively) massive casualties.