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TIL that hair styling powder exists, after I thought my hairdresser tried to sell me illegal drugs when he asked after my haircut if I wanted powder

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aEgZ TIL Of “Peter the great”, a cat who was the lone survivor of a New Zealand sulfur mine on a remote island volcano. The resupply ship found no trace of the miners.
69KRw TIL How fitting a square peg in a round hole saved the crew of Apollo 13. The lunar module didn’t have enough CO2 scrubbers to return to Earth and the command module’s scrubbers were square and didn’t fit in the lunar module’s round outlets. A filter was made with plastic bags, cardboard, and tape.
gMVV4 TIL that the global economic crisis of 2008-10 was linked with at least 260,000 excess cancer deaths
0wvpy TIL that while Avengers: Endgame is the highest grossing movie of all time, when adjusted for inflation, 1939's Gone With the Wind is still the frontrunner by over a billion dollars.
Yppjv TIL There are bugs that look exactly like leaves.