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TIL that 95% of nuclear weapons are owned by the USA and Russia

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oKOr TIL that during World War 1 America called sauerkraut Liberty Cabbage to avoid a German sounding name
GYyPG TIL that During the 1990s, Raul Cano, a microbiologist at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, revived yeast trapped in amber for 25 million years. Cano went on to found a brewery and crafted an "amber ale" with a 45-million-year-old variant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
LkLe0 TIL that New Zealand has more gangs per capita than any other country in the world, with about seventy major gangs and 6,500 patched or prospective gang members in the country of 4.8 million.
Oo5ag TIL that astronauts often lose fingernails due to their glives during spacewalks. Some remove their fingernails before they leave.
ADDld TIL Laika, the first living being launched to space exactly 60 years ago, had a painful death. Until 2002 russian authorities sustained she survived for several days and died painlessly, assuring it was possible to live in space.