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TIL Academy award winner Sir Ben Kingsley real name is Krishna Pandit Bhanji

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1app7 TIL peeing in the shower once a day saves 2,500 liters of water per year per person
R7BY6 TIL the US Gemini space capsule had to be redesigned because 14 of the 16 astronauts didn't fit in it. The original design relied so heavily on input from Mercury astronaut 'Gus' Grissom, who was 5' 6", that it was nicknamed the "Gusmobile."
AN9Nl TIL Japan has a ratio of one vending machine for every 30 people.
78RRO TIL that sufferers of Carbon Dioxide build-up will experience the follow symptoms: Breathlessness, diziness, confusion and disorientation, headaches, muscle twitching and hand flapping, panic, hyperventilation, convulsions, unconsciousness, and finally, death.
GLQ1 TIL that cats do not have any naturally occurring antibodies against canine blood, which means that in life threatening situations it is possible to give a cat a blood transfusion using blood from a dog. But only once. The second time proves fatal.