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TIL that in a 2004 study of basic science literacy, less than half of US adults knew that genes are located in cells.

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xVoJo TIL that in 1979 the governments of the USA, France, Canada and the USSR signed a treaty to create a worldwide network of search-and-rescue satellites and ground stations. To date this system has saved at least 42k lives and works everywhere on Earth. A beacon costs $200 and has a 5 year battery!
aVnb TIL Gene Wilder’s only demand when cast as Willy Wonka was that he enter the courtyard hobbling, lose his cane and do a somersault, so that “from that time on, no one will know if I’m lying or telling the truth.”
ADB44 TIL the coelacanth, a prehistoric lobed-finned fish, was believed to have become extinct in the Late Cretaceous Era 66 millions years ago, until they were rediscovered extant off the coast of South Africa in 1938.
MrbW TIL - A 17 Year Old Girl Was Sentenced to ‘Life in Prison Without Parole’ for the Murder of Her Pimp
bvlN TIL that Ronnie Van Zant of Lynyrd Skynyrd would say to his friends and family that we would never live to be thirty. He was 29 when he was killed in a plane crash while on tour.