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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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R5R06 TIL Smallville actor Allison Mack was sentenced to 3 years of prison due to her involvement with sex trafficking through the cult NXIVM
WXG4 TIL that when Princess Diana was stripped of the title “Her Royal Highness,” a young Prince William told his mother “Don’t worry, Mummy, I will give it back to you one day when I am king.”
Z8oka TIL that the person who directed all those emotional John Lewis Christmas adverts also directed this.
evvL TIL of the famous 18th-century racehorse named Potoooooooo (Pot-8-Os), whose original name of Potatoes was misspelled on his feed bin by a stable lad. It amused the owner so much that he kept the new name.
BMne TIL A Megadeath is a unit of measurement. 1 Megadeath = 1 million deaths caused by nuclear explosion. It is also where the band got its namesake.