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TIL that being in space can cause anemia.

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R55Zw TIL that the Seattle Mariners are the only MLB team that has never appeared in a World Series (the Brewers and Rockies have one loss each, while the Padres, Rays, and Rangers have 2 losses each)
e0P1k TIL Alan Turing, the mathematician who cracked Enigma ending WWII at least two years early and saving ~11M lives, was a gay man. He was later arrested for being a homosexual and sentenced to chemical castration. Turing mysteriously died of cyanide poisoning.
wLdWW TIL That a petard was a small bomb used in the sixteenth century to blow up walls. So being hoisted by his own petard means he was blown up by his own bomb.
4kDl5 TIL on 13 August 2024 Greg Kihn the two-hit wonder of The Breakup Song and Jeopardy (the song) fame died something i learned from Australian music video show Rage's in memoriam 2024 special its MTV if it still had music)
9Op7 TIL that Patrice Lumumba ,the first democratically elected PM of Congo and a pan-Africanist, lasted only 81 days before being killed by the Belgians and the CIA