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TIL the last recorded words to come from inside the Challenger Space Shuttle before it exploded were, “Uh oh.”

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w9XW TIL that in response to events in 2016, the artist behind the memeified “This is fine” dog comic made a new version where the dog screams “THIS IS NOT FINE!”
J5L4 TIL that lungs are not hollow like a balloon. They are solid and spongy.
4XykN TIL The common characteristics of Prader-Willi syndrome include small hands and feet, abnormal growth and body composition (small stature, very low lean body mass, and early-onset childhood obesity), hypotonia (weak muscles) at birth, insatiable hunger, extreme obesity, and intellectual disability
wvm1 TIL that from the late 18th to mid-19th century, it was considered bad for women to read novels based on the belief that women were not “able to differentiate between fiction and life.”
ADyK7 TIL in preparation for their proposed invasion of Britain, the Nazis produced a handbook identifying dangerous anti-Nazi institutions in Britain, including Masonic lodges, the Church of England, and the Boy Scouts