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TIL Steven Hawking believes humans will be extinct in 100 years of we do not colonize space.

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VMQ4B TIL that Toto, the Japanese toilet company, created a motorcycle that runs on waste. It has a toilet for a seat.
d86LK TIL that Navy Seals who carried out the Bin Laden kill mission, forgot to bring a tape measure and had to measure Laden's height by making a six feet tall Seal lie down next to Laden's corpse
4XOO6 TIL of Mary Babnik Brown, who donated her 34" untreated hair to the United States military during WWII after they determined that blonde hair that had never been treated or exposed to heat was the most resilient material to use as the crosshairs in bomb sights.
nedMb TIL There was a proposal to make Ottawa's Rideau Street enclosed in a continuous glass-and-steel structure. The heated mall was expected to allow pedestrians to shop in comfort year-round. However, the downside was that it attracted large numbers of vagrants and late-night drinkers
49BR TIL a fly is not the zipper itself, but the flap of cloth concealing the zipper!