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TIL astronauts aboard the ISS are growing lettuce to study outer space gardening techniques.

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awPjL TIL about a Tiger tank that managed to fight off 50 T-34s
09OM TIL that Johann Sebastian Bach wrote a mini-opera about coffee addiction
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PMOG TIL Sacha Baron Cohen, acting as his Ali G character, interviewed a British PM and offered him a ‘joint’–which the PM accepted and smoked on the spot.
RlA1 TIL that the longest anyone has ever survived in a shipwrecked raft was 133 days by a Chinese man named Poon Lim. He survived the ordeal by fishing, drinking bird blood, and killing a shark with a jug of water. He died exactly 23 years ago at the age of 72.