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Today I Learned that Neil Armstrong was paid the 2021 equivalent of around $490 for the time he spent on the moon.

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VBVLp TIL that a polar bear liver has enough vitamin A to kill 52 adults! Ito cells are cells in the liver that store Vitamin A (Lipid soluble). High Vitamin A production in marine algae at the bottom of the food chain results in polar bear livers with enough Vitamin A to last a human 143 years!
ljD1 TIL Iran has more cabinet members with PhDs from US Universities, than the US cabinet itself does
4eBa TIL Nicotine is the tobacco plant’s evolutionary defence mechanism, which makes insects sick when they eat the plant, thus saving the plant from being eaten!
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