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TIL While shooting The Princess Bride, Andre the Giant racked up US$40,000 at the bar Hyatt in London, where he was staying. According to some estimates his average daily consumption of alcohol was a case of beer, three bottles of wine, and a couple of bottles of brandy.

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grEBL TIL that Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to travel to space on June 16, 1963, when she orbited Earth as part of the Vostok 6 mission. She remains the youngest woman to fly to space, the only female astronaut/ cosmonaut to make a solo space journey.
x64y1 TIL that insects undergoing metamorphosis can retain their memories even though their bodies, including their brains, essentially melt down into gloop and reform entirely. It is not understood how this is possible.
KOrOQ TIL that people with German ethnicity were expelled from eastern Europe the years after WW2. Approximately 12 million people were forcefully transferred, with between 500,000 to 2 million dying in the process. This event have been called a democide, or even a genocide, by some historians.
kO51d TIL that Saint Valentine is not only the patron saint of love, but also of beekeeping. This puts a different perspective of the common Valentine's Day phrase "Bee Mine".
16WY7 TIL The world's first nuclear reactor. Chicago Pile 1 was built in 1942 by Nobel Prize winner Enrico Fermi. The reactor was built underneath the University of Chicago's Stagg Field football stadium