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TIL: China is banned from the International Space Station (ISS)

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8eBaZ TIL Living Alone in Italy to Cook Baked Potatoes
DQ1Rp TIL The Gobi Desert is expanding through desertification, most rapidly on the southern edge into China, which is seeing 3,600 km² (1,390 mi²) of grassland overtaken every year.
69Xj7 TIL that Queen Victoria considered Former President Millard Fillmore to be the handsomest man she'd ever met.
1NJX TIL that in 1941, more than three million cars were manufactured in the United States. Only 139 more were made during the entire war. Ford turned out one B-24 bomber every 63 minutes for 24 hours a day.
OljY TIL that the only recorded instance of a cavalry capturing an enemy’s ships occurred in the unusually cold winter of 1795, when most of the waterways in Northern Europe froze over and the French cavalry were able to charge out onto a frozen port to capture the Dutch fleet stranded there