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TIL The Soviet Union tried to drill through the Earth’s crust just to see what would happen.

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Bgyeb TIL that until as recent as 2019 children in Vale de Salgueiro, northeast Portugal, were allowed to smoke cigarettes freely to celebrate Epiphany (January 6th)
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yQBBM TIL about history's most expensive "hyphen" when a NASA programmer missed out a single hyphen whilst transcribing a mathematical formula for the guidance system which caused an entire NASA rocket launch to be aborted and the rocket destroyed.
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9YWdr TIL Unlike the Norse, Anglo-Saxons believed that Odin (Woden) was a mortal common ancestor, and English kings continued to claim to be descendants of Odin up to the 12th century.