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TIL South Korea’s first astronaut is a female
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TIL that because the UK Royal Navy's Astute class nuclear powered submarines can purify their own air and water and run on nuclear fuel, that the endurance is only limited to 90 days due to breakfast storage capacity for 18,000 sausages and 4200 Weetabix
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TIL fax machines were first used in the 1800s
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TIL In 1864 during the Battle of the Wilderness in Virginia, a Union and Confederate soldier got into a fistfight to settle their disagreement on who was the other's prisoner. The brawl made both armies pause the entire battle just so they could watch them fight.
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TIL that "genius" is spelled without an "o" , unlike the word "ingenious".
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TIL that Robin Williams turned down the role of The Riddler in Batman Forever, because it wasn’t funny enough