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TIL NASA has been breeding jellyfish in space for 20 years

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yQMWa TIL that Antartica has a native insect species the Antarctic Midge, Belgica Antarctica. The species has been for around 30 million years and has adapted to surviving the cold, it is the technically the largest land animal on the contient and has the tiniest genome of any insect.
XEjJk TIL: lakes near ocean coasts have a slightly higher salt content because of wind. Wind transfers salt off the ocean to fresh water lakes, altering the ecosystem and hostng unique forms of microbial life
woE5E TIL: Disabled people are still being subjected to shock therapy torture in the United States in Mass
eRRL TIL illegal downloading of songs, games and software may cost you a job at the Central Intelligence Agency as they do look into your history of it
P1n0Z TIL that Vincent van Gogh was so in love with his widowed cousin that he held his hand in the flame of a lamp in front of his uncle while saying to him: "Let me see her for as long as I can keep my hand in the flame."