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TIL that astronaut helmets have a patch of Velcro inside of them so astronauts have a way to scratch their noses.

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7ALx TIL that the Harry Patch was the last Tommy to survive the horror of the trenches of WWI. He died aged 111 in 2009. He never forgot those lost and always made sure to remember lost Germans as well as Allied troops.
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