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TIL Chef Anthony Bourdain had a kitchen knife custom-forged from a Meteorite

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LkPpp TIL that the actors of The Last of Us Part II could improvise their performances and were allowed up to 20 or 30 takes.
b6Oe4 TIL that tobacco smoke enemas were so accepted as a resuccitation treatment for drowning in 1700's Europe that emergency smoke enema kits were placed next to the River Thames in London. Doubts about the utility might also be the source of the expression about "blowing smoke up your ass."
4kaPg TIL of the Astronomical Unit, or AU, a unit of length equivalent to the distance between the Earth and the Sun, measuring 149,597,870.7 kilometres exactly. It's also a fundamental component in defining another unit of astronomical measurement, the parsec.
GBoJ TIL that Belarus is the last country in Europe that still uses the death penalty. The convicts are shot in the back of the head with a silenced PB-9 pistol. The whole procedure, starting with the announcement about denied appeals and ending with the gunshot, lasts no longer than two minutes.
D1xBr TIL toilets and drains DO NOT rotate differently in the southern and northern hemisphere