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TIL NASA is developing 3D printed pizzas for astronauts

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P1WnL TIL actor Richard Harris was offered the role of English Bob in Unforgiven by a phone call from Clint Eastwood while watching Eastwood's western High Plains Drifter. Richard thought it was a prank at first.
nnQr TIL it’s estimated that within 50 years the hull and structure of the Titanic will collapse entirely due to a growth in iron-eating bacteria
ne1oo TIL that in 1959 the U.S. Navy submarine USS Barbero used a nuclear capable SSM-N-8 "Regulus" cruise missile to deliver mail
rLVw TIL that the “Red Zone” in France, where some of the most intense combat from WW1 took place, is utterly uninhabitable. Countless undetonated chemical weapons and explosives riddle the earth which, along with the tons of human remains, have rendered the soil and water highly toxic.
A11o TIL “Run” is the word with the most different meanings. The verb-form alone has no fewer than 645 meanings and Peter Gilliver worked for more than nine months to work out all of them.