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TIL astronauts aboard the ISS do not wash or dry their clothes. They wear them until they're too dirty or stinky to wear, then they put them in a capsule and drop them into the atmosphere, where they burn up during re-entry.

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b9mA7 TIL that the word ‘gyrle’, now spelled ‘girl’, used to be gender neutral. It was used to refer to any young child.
WL7N TIL an Arnold Palmer plus vodka is a John Daly.
0dEY1 TIL the Roman Emperor Tiberius would execute boys whose sexual company he had grown tired of by having them thrown from a cliff into the sea while he watched. Some were tortured before being executed, and if they survived the fall, men waiting would break their bones with oars and boathooks.
j6R4a TIL that after the Portuguese defeat in the Siege of Tangier (1437, against Morocco), Prince Ferdinand was held hostage until Portugal returned the city of Ceuta to Morocco. The Portuguese King never did that, despite his brother's pleas, and Ferdinand died in captivity, in 1443.
j6rYn TIL, that the first pyramid in Pharaonic Egypt wasn't Khufu's pyramid (the great pyramid of giza), However it was his father's (sneferu) known as the "Bent Pyramid," located in Dahshur.