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TIL Russian cosmonauts used to pack a shotgun in case they landed in Siberia and had to fend off bears.

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nW6lY TIL that the International Date Line was only discovered after Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigated the world and discovered he "lost" a day compared to those who stayed in Spain.
E1k8w TIL Mathematicians at London's King's College concluded Stanley Kubrick's The Shining(1980) to be the "perfect scary movie" according to new Mathematical Formula. The Formula is : (es+u+cs+t) squared +s+ (tl+f)/2 + (a+dr+fs)/n + sin x - 1
N7lYM TIL that air raid shelter signs from the WWII blitzkrieg almost 80 years ago can still be found in London
4X4lX TIL While Pope Gregory IX was in power, he declared that cats were to be associated with devil worship and had them exterminated. The disappearance of cats is believed to have helped rats spread Bubonic plague or black death.
KOPA9 TIL George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson brought their own books to the White House and removed them at the end of their terms. It was not until 1850 that Millard and Abigail Fillmore established the first official White House collection