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TIL that actor Brian Blessed is a fully trained astronaut, having completed over 800 hours of 'space training' in Moscow, and "remains the number one civilian on the wait list for the International Space Station."

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yema TIL that during the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis, the African American hostages were released almost immediately as Iran was “sympathetic to oppressed minorities”.
XEPYD TIL about the G.I Joe Fallacy, named so by two women professors at Yale, means that knowing is not half the battle. But knowing that the G.I Joe Fallacy is a fallacy is less than half the battle.
Lk5RZ TIL about Danish artist Thomas Dambo who creates giant wooden sculptures and hides them in the forests of Copenhagen
WkKn9 TIL that the US Army field tested the use of camels in the American Southwest before the Civil War
kpyd TIL Alaska has over 3,000,000 lakes