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TIL David Gilmour (Pink Floyd) owns the Fender Stratocaster with the #0001 serial number.

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YN0v TIL The area code by NASA in Orlando is (321)
7rY0X TIL that NASA has its very own SWAT team.
epW44 TIL that the most venomous snake in the world is not a sea snake but the Inland Taipan, from Australia.
gM698 Today I learned of skydiver Joan Murray who crash landed on a fire ant mound at 80 MPH because her chutes failed to deploy and survived because because of the fire ants' sting caused a surge of adrenaline which kept her heart beating.
OolyY TIL that while interbreeding occurred between neanderthals and early modern humans, the only genetic evidence of these events conserved within the human genome comes from Y chromosomal DNA meaning that all neanderthal DNA within modern humans comes from male neanderthal and female human pairings.