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TIL In space, if unprotected pieces of metal touch each other, they stick together permanently.

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nWEJ7 TIL the story of Aladdin was not in the original Arabic version of One Thousand and One Nights (aka Arabian Nights). It was added by a French translator. The tale is set in a Chinese city, with Aladdin being Chinese himself.
RkM6 TIL that blue lighting in public restrooms prevents heroin users from finding veins and shooting up
OorAR TIL that several European nobles thought that their bodies were made of glass. This is called the Glass Delusion.
JYG68 TIL Ajay V. Bhatt, an Indian-born American computer architect who led the Intel team that invented the USB (Universal Serial Bus), regrets not making it reversible. It would have doubled the cost, which was a hard sell at the time, "[b]ut in hindsight, we blew it." He holds 132 patents and counting.
x6vK1 TIL that Lawrence Dallaglio, former captain of the English national team of rugby, is also a chorister on Tina Turner’s song "We don’t need another hero". He was 12 years old, when they recorded it.