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TIL that in the middle of the Pacific Ocean there is an area where spacecraft pieces entering orbit generally land, or crash. It’s called the “Spacecraft Cemetery” and its wreckage includes the Mir Space Station.

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ngjd TIL that dalmatians were adopted as the official firehouse dog after early firefighters noticed that dalmations had a natural affinity with their horses. They would run along side of them, and even protect them from other animals
4XwwX TIL that the 3 times that the 25th Amendment of the US Constitution has been invoked for an acting President, all have been concerned with colonoscopies.
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yEQM TIL that the the first deodorant for men was launched in 1935 (decades after the introduction of deodorants for women) because, at the beginning of the 20th century, body odour was not considered a problem for men; it was a part of being masculine.