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TIL Astronauts attach pieces of Velcro into their helmets to scratch their noses during space walks.

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6EgJ TIL Soundgarden did a 1 minute cover of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s duet “2 Minute’s Silence,” claiming to have cut Yoko’s minute from the track.
wLZ11 TIL "Simon" in Simon Says is different in other countries. In France it's Jack Says, Chinese is Teacher Says, Norway is The King Commands, and Ireland is O'Grady Says.
yQLm8 TIL of Walraven van Hall, a Dutch banker who during WW2 set up a shadow bank to finance the Dutch resistance movement.
k8We TIL there are now more Americans in jail, 6 million, than there were in Stalin’s Gulag, with 80% of those in jail for “possession.”
0wjgR TIL that Donatella Versace flew boyband Blue out to the Milan fashion week in her private jet thinking that she had invited Blur.