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TIL the Soviet Union named a crater on Venus after Christa McAuliffe, the teacher astronaut who died during the Challenger space shuttle disaster.

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dDr7 TIL that Jack Gleeson’s portrayal of Joffrey Baratheon is influenced by Joaquin Phoenix’s performance in Gladiator
pJgb TIL Rubbing alcohol burns when applied to wounds because it increases the sensativity of VR1 nerves (the nerves that tell your brain if something is hot) and your own body heat becomes the burning sensation.
6EomY TIL of Eva Umlauf, a Jew who arrived in Auschwitz at the age of two in 1944. Despite her young age, she was tattooed with her camp number: A26959. Getting it was so painful, that she passed out. Her mother was a digit lower. Eva thinks she was the youngest child to have been tattooed who survived.
x658k TIL when Marlon Brando planned to get circumcized in the 1990s, he believed that his ability to meditate had given him a high pain tolerance and thus wanted the procedure to be conducted without using painkillers or anaesthesia. He was unhappy when he later found out that anesthesia is required.
8eBvK TIL according to science, Uranus smells like rotten eggs.