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TIL The Space Shuttle Challenger was built as a vibration-test vehicle and then upgraded to become an operational Shuttle.

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wRG1 TIL Afghan Women had the right to vote in 1920’s and full equality in 1960’s.
ZGeR TIL that sweat doesn’t smell bad. A stinky “body odour” is caused when the skin bacteria feed on sweat. Their waste products are what smell bad!
nVYP TIL A monkey hung himself with a gibbet of his making after witnessing many public executions and then examining a hangman’s noose.
YpOnZ TIL an actor accidentally slit his own throat on stage while performing a suicide scene in a play based on Mary, Queen of Scots. The prop knife he was supposed to have used had been switched with a real one. If he’d cut a little deeper, he would have died.
Z8jMa TIL about the Rambutan, a hairy fruit, appropriately called the hair fruit in Malay and the messy hair fruit in Vietnamese.