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TIL that all US astronauts are required to learn Russian as part of their extensive training, and have to be able to run the ISS using Russian-language training manuals if necessary.

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N7O58 TIL that the will of Who bassist John Entwistle, who died in 2002 after taking cocaine with a stripper in a Las Vegas hotel, divided his estate between his mother, son and girlfriend. A month after receiving an inheritance of ca £1million, Lisa Pritchett-Johnson died of a suspected drug overdose.
QK6p TIL 30 percent of Mongolians still live a nomadic lifestyle.
rRgEW TIL, when actor Heinrich Schmieder, who in the movie “Downfall” played Hitler’s bodyguard, Oberscharführer Rochus Misch, died in 2004, the real Misch was still alive and would live nine more years
epnAD TIL radiation exposures during the Chernobyl disaster were as high as 16 Sv (sieverts), three times the lethal LD50 dose of 4.8 Sv. A human near a breach of the ITER fusion reactor's containment vessel would be exposed to 2000 Sv every second.
WPeL TIL: The original 1983 V miniseries was inspired by the 1935 novel It Couldn’t Happen Here but with American fascists replaced by an alien occupying force to make it easier to market.