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TIL Kareem Abdul-Jabber has written Sherlock Holmes novels and an episode of Veronica Mars

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eRbg TIL that the last surviving veteran of the Crimean war(1853) died in only 2004, he was a tortoise called Timothy who served with the Royal Navy
M7OM0 TIL in 1999 NASA lost a $125M Mars orbiter because of a calculation error. The mistake occurred because Lockheed Martin engineers used English (inch, ft) measurements in their calculations in contrast to NASA’s metric (cm, m) calculations.
JYVXV TIL that the word “rays” has the most homonyms, being one of seven words pronounced the same but spelled differently
wDME TIL: The US Attorney General, at his own discretion, can reschedule Cannabis.
X0aWP TIL tardigrades, also known as water bears, are among the most resilient creatures on Earth? They can survive temperatures as low as -272°C (-458°F) and as high as 150°C (302°F), pressures six times greater than those found in the deepest ocean trenches, and even the vacuum of space.