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TIL a group of small worms in a petri dish encased in aluminum survived the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and impact with the ground. They were found over two months later still alive.

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OGBYe TIL in the first auto show in New York in 1899, every vehicle was electric with the exception of some steam powered cars.
69obQ TIL that Jake Gyllenhaal is legally blind
oRR1E TIL Brian O'Leary wrote his Ph.D. thesis on the physical properties of the Martian surface and was selected as a scientist-astronaut by NASA in 1967 for a potential manned Mars mission when it was still in NASA's program plan
awxVo TIL of the 2003 Monkeypox Outbreak, in which there were no documented human-to-human transmissions. Instead, all 71 afflicted parties got infected from prairie dogs. The prairie dogs were likely infected by Gambian pouched rats while they were housed at the same Illinois exotic pet store.
KOVoR TIL of the Dracula parrot found only in New Guinea. Despite its name, the parrot eats no meat but rather feeds almost exclusively on figs. Just as vultures adapted a featherless head to feed cleanly on bloody carcasses, a Dracula parrot's lack of face feathers keeps its face clean of sticky figs.