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TIL that rather than wasting water on doing laundry, Astronauts on the International Space Station eject their dirty worn clothes into space to burn in the Earth’s atmosphere.

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VMvYG TIL the land of Sheba (as in the place whose Queen was in both the Bible and the Quran) is now modern day Ethiopia.
0wdmN TIL that the first humans were apparently Chinese - Peking man was the missing link between ancient ape and modern humans. However, most of the fossil fragments of the Peking man vanished after 1941
GYVNE TIL that the city of Erbil in Iraq has a 'bulge' in the middle that has formed over the course of 6000 years as new buildings have been built over the remains of old ones
yVGYw TIL Toni Basil, singer of 80's one-hit-wonder "Mickey," was also an actress who'd appeared in 1969's Easy Rider
0deDL TIL: Giuseppe Jona (renowned physician) of Venice was demanded by the Nazi’s to hand over a list of all Jews that lived there, which he possessed. On the day of the handover, he burned the list, then killed himself. His actions resulted in only 243 deported Jews and approx. 1,200 saved.