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TIL: It costs $5,984 to get a pound of materials to the ISS on Space X's Falcon 9.

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oBrDW TIL that President Roosevelt's dog, Fala, was so well known to Americans during his presidency that American soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge would ask each other what the president's dog was named in order to prove that they weren't Germans in disguise.
YpEoP TIL the seeds of the Abrus precatorius plant contain the toxin abrin. Abrin is fatal at just 1/75 the dose of ricin. Abrin has an LD50 of 0.56 μg/kg in mice, and Kingsbury lists a toxic dose in humans at 0.00015% body weight, or approximately 0.1 mg for a 150 lb human. One chewed seed can be fatal.
ZpXBQ TIL that the Advertising Standards Agency in the UK received a number of complaints about the "Crazy Frog" commercial, due to viewers concerns that Crazy Frog "appeared to have a visible penis and scrotum"
r5Ve TIL After Dave Grohl left his first band, they decided to quit because they knew they’d never find a drummer as good as him.
bMDj TIL the paradoxical frog, pseudis paradoxa, is the only known animal that has babies larger than the parent.