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TIL it is illegal to be homeless in the UK

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BXZL TIL that astronauts must have good airflow around them when they sleep, otherwise they, “…could wake up oxygen-deprived and gasping for air, because a bubble of their own exhaled carbon dioxide had formed around their heads.”
0XKy TIL Michael Birch, the founder of Bebo, sold Bebo to AOL for $850 million in 2008 only to later buy it back for only $1 million in 2013.
a8ml0 TIL about slaves abandoned in 1760 on a tiny island (Tromelin) who survived there for 15 years. On an island with no trees, with only one well, constantly battered by winds and storms. Seven women and one child survived.
KOpeQ TIL: The Mongol Empire once extended over an estimated 9.27 million square miles (24,000,000 km2), which is about 17.8% of Earth's total land area, almost 5x larger than 'Pax Romana' Rome.
V7em TIL CERN Data Centres process over 1 petabyte of data everyday! upto 10gb a second!