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TIL Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti wore a 'Star Trek' uniform in space

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jONE TIL scientists now have the ability to use a 3D printer to make complex chunks of growing muscle, cartilage, and bone.
w6PJ TIL that nearly 30% of all American workers need a license to perform their job– including florists, make up artists, ballroom dance instructors, hair braiders and in 21 states, even travel guides.
R7R71 TIL according to the protocols of the Post Detection Policy, once an extraterrestrial civilization has been detected or identified, no single individual state or entity is to make contact. Communications must be voted on and presented on behalf of the entire human species as a unit.
vP1n8 TIL that CNN has prepared a sign-off tape to be played at the "end of the world"
yVewV TIL Composer Richard Wagner lived in Villa Wesendonck, an elegant neoclassical mansion in Zurich. Wagner's house later became the Rietberg Museum, the only gallery in Switzerland to concentrate on non-European cultures