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TIL Because of an obstruction in the shuttle's external wastewater dumping system during STS-41D, a two-foot "pee-sicle" formed during the mission which had to be removed with the Robot Arm

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Knwa TIL that the first woman to serve in the US senate was Rebecca Latimer Felton in 1922. She was 87 and served for only one day. She championed prison reform, women’s rights, and education. She was the last member of Congress to have owned slaves, was a white supremacist and openly supported lynching.
xO9b TIL There is a Indian village which celebrates each girl child by planting 111 trees
N7MMb TIL about Werner Goldberg, a blond-haired blue-eyed German soldier who was used in Nazi propoganda and recruiting as the "ideal German Soldier". He was later dismissed as he was part Jewish.
QJpEE TIL when the original director of mega-flop The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996) was fired and replaced, he secretly returned to set disguised as a mutant dog and worked for the rest of production as an extra.
GAYv1 TIL that Oreos were invented 26 years before chocolate chip cookies. 1912 v 1938.