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TIL flies can live for days without their head

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Lk1Y9 TIL that when Yuri Gagarin visited Manchester, it was pouring rain. He however insisted that the roof of his convertible remain down and refused an umbrella, saying that 'If all these people have turned out to welcome me and can stand in the rain, so can I'.
kOpDg TIL about Tony Momoh, a journalist and one-time Nigerian minister of information and culture (1986 - 1990). He is the 165th child of his father, King Momoh I of Auchi, who had 48 wives and about 245 children.
V4yZ TIL a guy posted an ad on craigslist looking for workers for a fake cleanup job. He was actually using them as a distraction for an armor car robbery.
aglM TIL that the first recorded use of OMG was in a 1917 letter to Winston Churchill
PY8Mw TIL that a horse actually has up to 15 horse powers.