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TIL red M&Ms were not sold for 10 years over concerns that red food dye was a carcinogen

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XEnVX TIL the helicopter used during the US operation that killed Osama Bin Laden in 2011 that crashed was a stealth helicopter that was never known to publicly exist before
4XkKR When you think about animal migration, what comes to mind? Probably birds in flight or wildebeests moving across the Serengeti. Yet the largest migration on the planet is harder to see—and it happens every day. Ocean technologist and submersible pilot Dr. Erika Montague explains how.
NYXJ TIL the X Prize Foundation cancelled their $10 million genetic sequencing X Prize when the technology in the industry was beginning to approach the cost and accuracy thresholds for awarding the prize.
nR0W TIL as the third man in history stepped onto the moon he said “Whoopee! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that’s a long one for me”
neRr9 TIL about Serbian folk singer Milance Radosavljevic.When he was young he was struck by lightning and pronaunced dead.He was burried with his prized harmonica.Grave diggers came that night to retrive his harmonica, and found him alive. He went on having a successful music career, and is still alive.