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Trees can grow in orbit, but good luck finding a pot big enough on the Space Station…

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kZ8g TIL in 1985 the USAF shot down a satellite with a missile launched from an F-15
XaPE TIL A Chicago man once robbed a Subway and then crossed the street to buy a Potbelly sandwich with the money.
e0eME TIL The saw used to cut off a cast cannot cut human skin. The saw vibrates rather than rotating which can be absorbed by the skin but splits the cast.
4kdy6 TIL that 61% of US troops killed in Vietnam were under the age of 21. The overall average age was 23.
Pwew TIL that halfway between the U.S. and Australia, there is a concrete sarcophagus called the Runit Dome. Essentially an American version of the Chernobyl sarcophagus, constructed to deal with lingering radioactivity within the Enewetak Atoll, site of 111,000 cubic yards of irradiated debris.