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TIL Soviet Union had a space station armed with a 23mm autocannon

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gMEG4 TIL Hershey's does not meet the legal minimum cocoa content to be described as chocolate in Britain
loBrA TIL that before WWI Kaiser Wilhelm tried to impress Queen Wilhelmina of Holland by telling her "My guards are seven feet tall and yours are only shoulder-high to them." her reply was, "Quite true, Your Majesty, your guards are seven feet tall. But when we open our dikes, the water is ten feet deep!"
EOLd TIL United Airline’s lost nearly $1 Billion dollars in stock because a 6 year old article about their bankruptcy was accidentally shown in the “popular” section of Google News due to low traffic on the internet.
rNDE0 TIL that Robert Oppenheimer visited Japan as an honored guest of the Japan Committee for Intellectual Interchange in 1960
5Ya7p TIL: A dog's nose being wet and cool is a sign of good health is a common misconception. Many dogs can be sick and still have a wet nose, and other dogs can be healthy and still have a dry nose.