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TIL Turkey's capital, Ankara, was a small town of few thousand people in the beginning of the 20th century. It is now a sprawling, modern city and a symbol for independence, development and Western values

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0wjBA TIL Astronaut John Young was the only astronaut until now to command four different types of spacecraft: Gemini capsule, Apollo Module, Lunar Landing Module and Space Shuttle
REx1 TIL a solar storm like the Carrington Event in 1859 would cause devastation to world electronics if it happened today.
vPy4r TIL: Thanks to poor internal communication at NASA, information about a spacesuit water leak wasn't properly communicated. Later, Astronaut Luca Parmitano almost drowned on a July, 2013 ISS space walk, his helmet filling with several liters of water before they could get him back inside.
0dMnM TIL: Sanji was originally Naruto (and Naruto was originally a chef)
p8PXe TIL cockroaches are attracted to chemicals emanated from our ears and they can crawl in there and lay eggs.