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TIL astronauts use liquid salt and pepper because the normal type would just float away and be a safety hazard.

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oRNJr TIL Norway has a max price cap for kindergarten at around $325 per month
nWDPB TIL Soon after signing to Fire, in November 1985, lead singer of Pulp, Jarvis Cocker, fell out of a window while trying to impress a girl with a Spider-Man impression and ended up in hospital, temporarily requiring the use of a wheelchair, in which he appeared during concerts.
oRKGA TIL that the nomenclature for multiples of a thousand is different in the U.S. vs. the U.K. and the French. For example, a thousand times a thousand is a million in both. Times a thousand again becomes, in the U.S., a billion, whereas in the U.K. it becomes a thousand million, or milliard.
E1VVw A third of Americans believe Covid-19 laboratory conspiracy theory.
PYgjn TIL that during a Communist Party conference in 1937, following a speech by Stalin, the audience began to clap and carried on for 11 minutes, with no-one daring to be the first to stop. The first person to stop was a paper factory director who was arrested that night and sent to prison for 10 years.