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TIL that the most common and annoying injury astronauts suffer during spacewalks is traumatic fingernail loss, due to the material and internal pressure of their gloves.

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mxY4y TIL that 17th century Italian biologist Francesco Redi found that tortoise's brains are so small and irrelevant that when he surgically removed them, they could continue to live for up to six months. When he entirely decapitated one, it still lived for 23 days.
0woON TIL a sexually mature male duck is called a drake
78YGZ TIL "Goodbye My Lover," James Blunt's Top 10 UK single from 2005, was recorded in actress Carrie Fisher's bathroom. He later said, "Everyone sings in the shower and everyone in Los Angeles seems to have a piano in the bathroom."
R78DQ TIL Basketball Player Tim Duncan was almost an Olympic level swimmer but had to quit due to Hurricane Hugo destroying his practice pool forcing him to practice in the Ocean, he quit soon after due to his fear of sharks
BrPAy TIL that in 1582, the English merchant fleet had a total carrying capacity of 68,000 tons and required about 16,000 sailors (The container ship OOCL Hong Kong, christened in 2017, can carry some 200,000 tons while requiring a crew of only 22).