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Today I learned that there is a special two-seater suit for astronauts to have sex in space

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NbNe TIL several puppies died in Disney’s Snow Buddies
gvBL TIL artificial banana flavour doesn’t taste like bananas because the taste is based of a banana that was wiped out by a plague in the 1950’s.
grM77 TIL one of London’s hidden rivers runs over a tube station, Sloane Square, held inside an iron conduit built in the 19th century.
8eXYL TIL not all species die of old age. Some animals such as hydra, planarian flatworms, and certain sponges, corals, and jellyfish exhibit potential immortality.
D1ekY TIL in the 1900s, Radithor was marketed as an energy drink, but was really just distilled water with radium in it. When the first person died of the radiation poisoning, he had to be buried in a lead coffin. His body was still radioactive when he was disinterred years later.