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TIL A fresh cilantro plant and a Stink Bug smell the same.

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L8v0 TIL of Vladimir Komarov. When the Soyouz Spacecraft catastrophically failed in orbit, he impossibly managed to manually pilot the craft to re-enter Earth’s orbit, only to perish because both the main AND backup parachutes failed. He died “cursing those who had put him inside a botched spaceship”.
6EpEZ TIL about Zacharie Cloutier, who is the common ancestor of Beyoncé, Justin Bieber, Chris Pratt, and Jim Carrey (to name a few).
e0JWJ TIL actor Scott Bakula (Quantum Leap, Star Trek) had a clause in his contract requiring that he be home for dinner by six every night, for the sake of not being an absentee father or husband.
x6Ea7 TIL a woman, Jackie Mitchell, struck out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, then had her contracted voided
jNMyv TIL that a girl who was abducted at 3 saw her own face on a milk carton. It is one of very few success stories of the missing children milk carton campaign.