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TIL it is believed some, if not all, of the crew of the Challenger disaster survived the explosion and were instead killed when they hit the water after falling for almost 3 minutes.

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VBXpk TIL of 'Newman Day', an unofficial holiday at some US Colleges, including Princeton and Yale, in which students aim to drink 24 cans of beer in 24 hours. Based on an apocryphal remark by Paul Newman, about "24 hours in a day and 24 cans in a case", the actor (an alcoholic) abhorred the 'holiday'.
Dvae TIL that the movie Titanic is 34 minutes longer than the length of the actual sinking.
N7JVM TIL that the National Symbol for France is the Chicken, which also serves as the country's unofficial mascot
PJYe TIL Rupert Grint is so bad at saying no to fans that he once ended up dressed in full drag (including heels and feather boa) going to get a bagel with a group of drag queens at 4am.
WDoo TIL a panda noticed that pregnant pandas get special treatment, so she copied the behavior of pregnant pandas to get extra bamboo