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TIL that astronauts from the Apollo missions reported that lunar dust smells similar to spent gunpowder after they returned from spacewalks and removed their helmets inside the module.

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69dnJ TIL about the My Way Killings. Since 1998, 12 people have been murdered in karaoke bars in the Philippines for singing Frank Sinatra's, My Way and no-one really knows why.
NBw1 TIL that Irena Sendler, a nurse who secretly rescued 2500 children from the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust, and was viciously beaten by the Gestapo for her actions, was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 2007, the year it was awarded to Al Gore.
BrM5b TIL Tesla is the leading car manufacturer in Norway and total of 32% of cars are electric in Norway.
VMayD TIL that the sheet of ice that covers most of Antarctica is, on average, a mile thick or more (1.6 km), comprising 90% of the world's ice and more than 70% of its fresh water.
jNPGv TIL the city of Knoxville, Tennessee is a international port that can connect boaters to the Gulf of Mexico and the Great Lakes, despite the fact the closest beach from Knoxville is 372 miles East.