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TIL scientists revived 400-year-old frozen mosses recovered from melting glaciers in Canadian Arctic

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VWVB TIL the “Battle of B-R5RB”. It was an epic digital battle in EVE online and it costed $300,000 in real world money.It began when someone forgot to pay an in-game rent for an in-game space station.
meOo TIL “the last great tank battle of the 20th century” took place in the middle of nowhere in the Iraqi desert. Since there were no nearby towns or landmarks, the Battle of 73 Easting had to be named after its map coordinates.
KYJKQ TIL Since dissecting human corpses was a taboo in the greco-roman world, Galens used Macaque Monkeys to study human anatomy, as he thought them to be the most anatomicaly similar to humans out of all the animal species he knew. This led to some errors, as they were less similar than he thought
0dEej TIL the international space station (ISS) took 10 years and 15 countries working together to assemble
x6Eak TIL that for the 23 years that The Three Stooges were working for Columbia Pictures, they were told their show wasn’t doing well, and thus were severely underpaid.