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TIL that The International Space station is closer to the earth than San Francisco is to L.A.

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x6MM7 TIL Pope Urban VII's only major act as Pope was the world's first public smoking ban. Anyone who "took tobacco in the porchway of or inside a church, whether it be by chewing it, smoking it with a pipe or sniffing it in powdered form through the nose" faced excommunication. His reign lasted 13 days
QBK9 TIL that after wife Mia Farrow lost $20K at the Sands, Frank Sinatra bought $50K in chips and attempted to win the money back. After failing and being denied credit, Sinatra drove a golf cart into a coffee shop where the casino manager was seated and fought with him. He never performed there again.
kORN4 TIL the last German troops to surrender after World War II were a group of soldiers stationed at a meteorological station on Svalbard. They lost radio contact in May 1945 and were unable to radio for support until August 1945. They were picked up by Norwegian seal hunters on September 4.
lowQ5 TIL that during the victorian era and the 19th century many people caught TB from cow's milk treated with borax that allowed the bacteria to flourish and hide the sour smell. Millions died.
8epyL TIL that the longest word in the English language is over 189,000 letters long and takes over 3 hours to pronounce