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TIL NASA has been breeding jellyfish in space for 20 years

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dYeK TIL an Italian singer wrote a song in the 70s that is made to simulate how a non-English speaker hears American English
yQPkl TIL Spiders could theoretically eat every human on Earth in one year
kORW5 TIL Peter the Great's godson, Abraham Petrovich Gannibal, was an African born, freed slave who was a military and civil engineering genius, who not only fought successfully for the Russian Empire but also for the Kingdom of France.
ZnEa TIL that handwriting has declined so much that 1 in 3 respondents to a UK survey said they had not written anything by hand in the previous 6 months.
xV7ok TIL, percussive maintenance is when you pound your fist on something to get it to work. The astronauts on Apollo 12 successfully did it when one of the cameras stopped working.