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TIL A one armed man in Belarus was arrested for clapping

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XEJpr TIL NASA changed their urine-collecting condom sizes from Small, Medium, Large, to Large, Gigantic, Humongous because male astronauts who were not well-endowed continued choosing ‘Large’ even though it was too big.
ANGjd TIL that the Battle of Messines involved the detonation of 19 massive underground mines, causing 10,000 deaths instantly. This explosion is believed to be one of the largest non-nuclear man-made explosions in history
GYn04 TIL In 1980 Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser was awoken to a report of 2,200 incoming Soviet missiles... it was a false alarm due to the malfunction of a 46 cent chip.
pYYkZ TIL that lobster used to be the poor people’s protein up until the 1880s, to the point that prisoners complain if they have to eat it more then 3 times a week
9wgoQ TIL Oxford Dictionaries named the emoji 😂 (Face With Tears of Joy, U+1F602) as Word of the Year in 2015