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TIL Al Gore’s daughter wrote an episode of Futurama
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TIL that following the crash of a commercial airplane he owned that killed all 223 passengers, three-time Formula One World Champion Niki Lauda investigated the crash and found that thrust reversers caused it, he got Boeing to admit fault and change the design of the 767 airplane
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[TIL] Some spiders are master recyclers. Orb-weavers remove their webs every morning by eating the silk. This way, protein from the silk is never wasted. They hide from predators all day and make a new web at night. I saw this myself this morning at on my balcony!
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TIL that in 2013 an app was created to help Icelanders avoid accidental incest.
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TIL Luffas grow on a vine on land! Not in the sea like I thought. It’s also edible before it gets to the scrubby spongy stage. TY to the little luffa farm in SLO. Side note it looks like a big cucumber at first.
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TIL, Ozzy Osborne had his genome sequenced to better understand how he’s still alive after years of hard drug and alcohol abuse. “There’s really no plausible medical reason why I should still be alive. Maybe my DNA could say why”.