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

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pYwAZ TIL that during WWI, conductor Karl Muck, a German-born Swiss citizen and conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, was interned as an enemy alien for more than a year and deported. He had been falsely accused of refusing to play the National Anthem before a concert.
oBL08 TIL of a vaudeville group that tried to sue a pair of newspapers for libel, after the papers ran scathing reviews of their act in 1898. The judge ruled in favor of the newspaper after the group performed their act in court
P1LaJ TIL Human penis shaped like a mushroom is to scoop out or displace the prior male’s semen
gMnKD TIL the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs created a line of freshwater caves. The Mayan culture was able to rise in the normally freshwater-poor Yucatan directly as a result of that meteor.
wLWL8 TIL of the Germanwings Flight 9525 crash, where the co-pilot deliberately crashed the plane into a mountainside after locking the captain out of the cockpit. The co-pilot had hidden the fact his doctor had been treating him for suicidal tendencies and declared him "unfit to work". 150 people died.