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TIL the X button on a PlayStation controller is actually called the cross button

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oRrmK TIL NASA has an "Innovative Advanced Concepts" (NIAC) group that focuses on high risk/high reward technology projects where the general public can submit ideas to specific challenges for cash prizes (ie Deep Space Food Challenge for $1,000,000 total)
R5wkj TIL as of 1959 the International Foot (unit) used by Americans is calculated using the metric system
9YDXQ TIL Doctors found an experimental way to inject oxygen straight into the bloodstream and human trials were planned.
VBRB8 TIL about Hague Invasion Act, passed in 2002 giving president power to use "all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any U.S. or allied personnel being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court".
XEXMX TIL Deer antlers grow more like bone cancer cells than like regular cells. However, deer have one-fifth the cancer rate of other mammals. This could lead to new ways to fight cancer.