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TIL Dormant viruses can reactivate during spaceflight. Herpes viruses reactivate in more than half of the crew aboard Space Shuttle and International Space Station missions.

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WkbWX TIL in 1992 the high court of Australia recognized for the first time that aboriginal peoples had rights over the land since they had inhabited it before the British settled.
RpM9 TIL Craig Harrison of the UK’s Household Cavalry killed two Taliban insurgents from a distance of 2,474 m/2.47 km (8,120 ft, or 1.54 miles) in November 2009. They are the longest confirmed sniper kills recorded in human history.
ednn TIL Mt. St Helens erupted while the Grateful Dead were performing ‘Fire on the Mountain’ in Portland, OR on June 12, 1980.
e0VeJ TIL that wisdom tooth extraction is a $3 billion per year industry in the USA. As many as 70% of wisdom teeth extractions are unnecessary, and that stopping these unnecessary extractions would reduce the average yearly income of an American dentist by as much as 40%.
ZRbp TIL that the premise for the game GTA was stumbled upon by testers through a glitch during the creation of a game called Race'n'Chase. The glitch opened up the linear gameplay of Race'n'Chase to an open world with “non-stop crashing”. Developers abandoned Race'n'Chase and turned it into GTA.