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TIL there is a park in London where pelicans eat pigeons

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pYMwQ TIL that as a joke, astronauts would later comprise the Apollo 15 crew, added pictures of two Playboy Playmates to the technical checklists of the crew of Apollo 12.
4Xd7R TIL about the "Grievance Studies affair" where three academics produced bogus papers to expose how lax academic journals had become. One paper that was accepted and published by the Journal Affilia included long excerpts from Hitlers Mein Kampf where the word "Jew" was replaced with "White Man".
w4w7 TIL too much peppermint can give you an itchy anus
mXgR TIL astronauts do not consume sodas or carbonated drinks in space because the lack of gravity to separate the liquid and gas in the stomach leads to a kind of vomiting called “wet burping”
pYlAp Today I learned about Heinrich Schliemann. You know Troy? City of ancient mystery, central to the writings of Homer? Yeah, he blew it up in 1871.