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TIL that the first woman in space, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, was not supplied with a toothbrush during her voyage; she used her finger to brush her teeth

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nWd4b TIL that Superman's lesser known powers include amnesia kisses, shapeshifting face (later dropped because that's something a bad guy would do), and 'wall rebuilding' vision
XE5ER TIL that during WWI, British newspapers falsely claimed that the Germans rendered down soldiers' corpses to make soap, candles and nitroglycerin. As a result, when news of the Holocaust reached Britain during WWII, the government assumed it was another made-up atrocity story.
newrB TIL sloths move so slow that alagae will grow on them giving them the green tint they have on their fur
BrVdk TIL of Rick Rescorla, a security consultant for Morgan Stanley who anticipated the 9/11 attacks and implemented practice emergency evacuations every 3 months. During the attacks he managed to evacuate most of the 2,687 employees and died trying to help even more people out of the buildings.
8jlZ TIL that after the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the yakuza sent hundreds of trucks filled with food, water, blankets, and sanitary accessories to aid the people in the affected areas of the natural disaster.