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TIL a medium-sized dog has the same environmental cost as a SUV

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QNQJ9 TIL that you don’t have to pay rent in Pennsylvania if your heat isn’t on between October and April.
aMyN TIL that there is a person on the House of Congress’ Science Committee who believes that everything to do with the study of Embryonic development is a fabrication.
NJ5e TIL that in 2007 the head of NASA called the Space Shuttle a big mistake. He wrote that had the agency instead continued using the Apollo-Saturn system that went to the moon, “we would be on Mars today”.
60w8 TIL Robert Maxwell, a noncombatant in WWII, was awarded the Medal of Honor for holding off a platoon armed with automatic weapons with 3 other soldiers using just .45 pistols and throwing himself on a grenade, absorbing the full blast. He is one of 7 surviving medalists, age 94.
x6JM7 TIL that "Lenna", cropped from the centerfold of the November 1972 issue of Playboy depicting Lena Forsén, is a standard test image used in the field of digital image processing