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TIL: The International Space Station can store up to 2,205 lbs. of garbage before it is sent back to Earth or burned up on commercial transport during re-entry.

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xVYj0 TIL, The LHC (Large Hadron Collider) propels Protons so quickly, that it takes less than 90 Microseconds for a Proton to travel 26.7 km (16.6m) around the main ring. In just one full second, a Proton will make 11,245 revolutions.
Y76Kd TIL Orville Wright's final flight was in a plane whose wingspan exceeded the length of his original flight.
e0Nw5 TIL until Victorian times, Father Christmas was concerned with adult feasting and merry-making. He had no particular connection with children, nor with the giving of presents, nocturnal visits, stockings or chimneys.
P1Y0g TIL Lenora Cazalet, daughter of Jeeves author PG Wodehouse, died after minor gynecological surgery in 1944 London because a German V1 rocket fell near the hospital and overwhelmed them with casualties so no one responded to Lenora's overnight call button pleas to stem her post-op bleeding.
VMkLG TIL that when a whale farts, the resulting bubble is so big that a full-grown horse could fit inside