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TIL Space Shuttle Discovery has a unique “teardrop shape” on its windshield tiles due to an unusual and unknown error.

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naK9 TIL There is a voice disorder where a person continues to speak like an adolescent after puberty
REBl TIL that there are as few as 3200 tigers left in the wild, down from 100000 at the beginning of the 20th Century.
Q1pa TIL some sap-sucking sea slugs incorporate living chloroplasts from the algae they eat into their own bodies, allowing the slugs to temporarily live off of solar energy through photosynthesis. For this reason they are also known as “solar-powered sea slugs.”
8aDkG TIL that steel shortages in WW1 is what led women to abandon the corset and transition into bras as we know them today.
l7OYa TIL that the plot of “West Side Story” was conceived by Jerome Robbins in the 1940s when his then-boyfriend, Montgomery Clift, suggested a musical adaptation of Romeo and Juliet but with gangs in New York. The idea stuck with Jerome, who called Clift a “theatrical genius” early in their affair.