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TIL NASA use’s the film Armageddon as training. New recruits have to find as many inaccuracies as possible. There are 168, more than 1 per minute.

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xrbw TIL of Heinrich Schliemann, who survived a shipwreck as a young boy, made a small fortune off the California gold rush, cornered the market in indigo dye and ammunition constituents in Russia during the Crimean War, was fluent in 14 languages, and excavated the site presumed to be Troy.
PvgG TIL that there is a disorder called “William’s Syndromes” in which one of its primary features is “pathological friendliness”
X7RP TIL that the series Harry Potter was the most banned book so far of the 21st century
9wpm6 TIL The absorptive surface area of the small intestine is about 250 square meters (almost 2,700 square feet)
Z8bGo TIL Literal Bird Sh*t Was A Driving Factor In US Imperialism