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TIL Researchers have crafted tiny wireless cameras that can be attached to beetles

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e0JdE TIL that some people in Japan believe that a much loved Japanese baseball team is cursed by the KFC co-founder, Colonel Sanders after his statue was thrown into a river by the team's fans. This is known as "Curse of the Colonel"
0wWjL TIL that Russian cosmonauts aboard Soyuz 7 took into space a cassette of Pink Floyd’s Delicate Sound Of Thunder, making them the first rock band to be played in space. The cassette was still aboard three years later when Mir burned up on re-entry
QJxvX TIL bees were declared as the most invaluable species on Earth at the Earthwatch debate. Five eminent scientists battled it out for fungi, bats, plankton, primates and bees
4k9Yw TIL: There are 53 "Thankful" villages in the UK where all their members of the armed forces survived WW1. There are 14 which are "Doubly Thankful" having also lost no-one in WW2.
OJw4 TIL the first commercially available handheld cellular phone was the Motorola DynaTAC 8000x, which hit the market in 1983 and weighed in at 2 pounds. It was priced at $3,995