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16xe7 TIL that roly-polies are not insects, they’re crustaceans. Roly-polies belong to the subphylum Crustacea, whereas insects belong to the class Insecta.
wLROM TIL when SkyLab disintegrated over a West Australian town, NASA received a $400 ticket for littering from the rural town that received the debris. A radio DJ raised the funds to pay the ticket in the 90s.
wV6W TIL that the first cardiologist to perform an open heart surgery was African-American, Daniel Hale Williams, and performed the surgery in 1893 on James Cornish, who was also African American.
eLP4 TIL: Mr Rogers sued the KKK for impersonating him.
LQdom TIL "Nuclear Gandhi", a glitch in the video game Civilization which makes the typically peaceful leader Gandhi aggressively use nuclear weapons, is a myth. There's no evidence such a glitch exists in the game, and several of the game's creators have stated that it's impossible for it to happen.