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TIL Water Bears Can Survive in Space

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mdoR TIL in 1961 the US accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb on a small town in North Carolina. It was 1 low voltage switch away from actually detonating.
grdoW TIL that at the Council of Nicea in 325, a priest called Arius proposed a heretical belief so strong he got punched by St. Nicholas, aka Santa Claus. Several years later, Arius died from rectal prolapse and according to legend, defecating out parts of his organs.
yV0nv TIL Abraham Lincoln was a distant cousin to the father-and-son presidents WH and Benjamin Harrison.
M7YP7 TIL- apples get Stem Cells in core🧐
ORB1 TIL the creators of Pac-Man did not now how the game ended as it was designed to run indefinitely. It was only when Billy Mitchell finished the game, after all its internal storage ran out, that they saw how it ended.