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TIL the whole Mars is as cold as the South Pole.
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TIL the first balloons were made out of animal bladders and “balloon animals” were made out of animal intestines
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TIL of remittance men - useless sons of Victorian British upper middle class families being given an allowance by their own family to be as far away from family as possible, typically settling in very remote parts of the British Empire.
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TIL that Jean Valjean, the main character from Les Miserables, has a father, mother, and sister that are canonically named Jean, Jeanne, and Jeanne respectively.
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TIL during the Siege of Baghdad, The Grand Library of Baghdad, containing countless precious historical documents and books on subjects from medicine to astronomy, was destroyed along with the House of Wisdom. The Tigris waters ran black with ink from the big quantities of books flung into the river
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TIL in the 1989 season, Deion Sanders became the only person in the history of Earth to score a home run in the MLB in the same week as scoring a touchdown in the NFL. He is also the only person to have ever participated in both a World Series and the Super Bowl.