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TIL that sex in space would be extremely difficult and is a topic of serious discussion amongst the scientific community.

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6ELdm TIL by the end of WW2, the United States was spending $213,000,000 a day on the war effort; adjusted for inflation, that's over three billion dollars a day.
ENNV TIL After 20 years of playing chess casually I’ve just learned that when you promote pawn in Chess, you can always take Queen in exchange, eventually ending up with 9 Queens max on field
7G6M TIL The Institute for Historical Review, a group that denies the holocaust, offered $50,000 for verifiable “proof that gas chambers for the purpose of killing human beings existed at or in Auschwitz” the reward was claimed in 1985 by an Auschwitz survivor.
BrBlr TIL the 3rd largest oilfield in the USA is located in Los Angeles.
6DwY TIL “Cowabunga” was originally a nonsense word used by Chief Thundercloud on “The Howdy Doody Show” in the early ‘50s. It was then adopted for use by surfers and later on, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Bart Simpson.