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TIL that in 1948, one of the deadliest earthquakes of all time occurred in The Soviet Union, killing 110,000 people; two thirds of an entire cities population

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D1o0P TIL NASA and the U.S. Naval used 11 deaf men from Gallaudet University and their inability to get nauseous to study the effects of prolonged weightlessness on the human body. Their work made substantial contributions to the understanding of motion sickness and adaptation to spaceflight.
O1Za TIL that Dogs laugh.When a recording of a dogs laugh is played to puppies they instantly show signs of joy and the same sounds have a calming effect on dogs in an animal shelter
W7V88 TIL that comedian Streeter Seidell, formerly of CollegeHumor, has written for Saturday Night Live since 2014 and became co-head writer in 2022.
QN8Wd TIL Champagne can only be called "Champagne" if made in the Champagne region of France, but due to a loophole in the Treaty of Versailles and the US not signing it, some California winemakers still use the term on their labels.
VBRbZ TIL of Didymus Chalcenterus (literally Didymus Bronze-Guts) the most prolific known writer of antiquity who wrote between 3500 and 4000 treatises. He became known as "Book-Forgetter" since he was unable to remember what he had written previously and often contradicted himself.