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TIL NASA took Nefertiti the jumping Porscha spider to the ISS to see if she could learn to hunt in zero gravity. She did, and when she returned to earth 110 days later, she successfully retrained her jumps again for 1 g.

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0dN4M TIL the famous silent film Nosferatu (1922) was given an unauthorized rerelease with sound in 1930 that used previously unreleased footage. This version survives today, albeit without sound, but has never been released on home video.
MYm TIL that in the orignal Powerpuff Girls pilot, the accidental substance was a can of “Whoop Ass”
a8vM0 TIL a Victorian undertaker inadvertently launched the first Low Carb diet craze
DlWp TIL: Only 2% of the world’s population have natural green eyes
p8XMQ TIL During WWII the US sent 400k vehicles, 14k planes, 13k tanks, 15M pairs of boots, 4.5M tons of food, and 2.7 M tons of petrol to the USSR to help defeat the Nazis