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TIL Mark Twain was incredibly well traveled and wrote "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth..."

LVB0 TIL that Russia is bigger than former planet Pluto
WvVN TIL there’s a 3D printer on the ISS and they’ve used it to ‘email’ tools into space (e.g. a socket wrench)
Br0Md TIL Diabetes UK, one of the major UK diabetes charities, was founded by science fiction writer HG Wells.
8aBXK TIL There is a Pub in Austria that has been open since 803
4XEbg TIL ciabatta has only been around since 1982.