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TIL the Russians founded their own Space Forces in 1992. The branch was united with the Russian Air Force in 2015, because the division was seen as "absolutely obsolete".

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JYdyj TIL a study reviewing 87 past research papers which suggested that drinking alcohol moderately has health benefits found that literally all of them were biased and/or poorly designed and/or pointing to positive effects that were unlikely in reality.
697o8 TIL, That Rumi, the famous love and mysticism poet, was actually a Muslim scholar, and it was only after meeting. befriending and sudden disappearance of a man named Shams, that caused such sorrow for him that he wrote more than 3000 sonnets and 40000 verses tributing to him.
DQdnP TIL the Philippine Span Asia Carrier Corporation holds the record for the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster (MV Dona Paz in 1987 - 4385 dead) before having four more of its ships capsize and total at least 1461 more deaths with hundreds more missing. The shipping line still operates today.
8e09X TIL the 22nd Amendment, in addition to limiting the president to two terms, also states that, if the president's successor serves for more than two years in their first term, they can only be re-elected once.
PMPg TIL that the reigning boxing Heavy Weight Champion of the World is also a PhD and an MP in his native Ukraine.