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TIL the Soviet space shuttle looked identical to the American shuttle because it was built off of stolen NASA designs.

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R55m1 TIL about Poverty Point, a prehistoric earthwork constructed by the Poverty Point culture located in present-day northeastern Louisiana between 1700 and 1100 BCE.
YMNd TIL that igloos can retain a temperature of 60° F during -50° weather. Fire inside melts the inner layer of ice, and the cold outside refreezes it, adding a layer of insulation.
7mpM TIL that up until the 14th century a ceremony was practiced in the Catholic Church to unite together two people of the same sex (normally men) in church-recognized friendship.
BrXBW TIL it is physically impossible for a person to open an airplane’s emergency exit mid-flight.
B0Ky TIL that, in 1945, Canada was asked how many Jewish refugees it would allow in. Canada’s Foreign Minister Frederick Blair replied: “None is too many.”