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TIL NASA has a swat team

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QJ709 TIL Human Evolution solves the same problem in different ways. Native Early peoples adapted to high altitudes differently: In the Andes, their hearts got stronger, in Tibet their blood carries oxygen more efficiently.
OGGmR TIL the defamation laws are such in Japan that you can sue someone for publicly damaging your character - even if what they said is true.
GYa15 TIL There is an 'Intergalactic Spaceport' in Wyoming that was intended for inhabitants of Jupiter who might wish to take sanctuary in the town in the event their planet is threatened by collisions from comets or meteors.
j6g0n TIL in 1964 whilst a student, future astronaut Reinhard Furrer assisted in the escape of 57 East Berlin citizens via a tunnel under the Berlin Wall
Eg5wX TIL of hitchBOT, a hitchhiking robot which successfully hitchhiked across Canada, Germany and the Netherlands, but while attempting to hitchhike across the United States, it was stripped, dismembered, and decapitated in Philadelphia.