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TIL NASA astronauts earn $64,724 a year.

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Ae4o TIL given a choice between alcohol-soaked food and normal food, male fruit flies that have recently been sexually-rejected by females will consume four times more alcohol-soaked food than the males that mated successfully.
dl7E TIL that in 1972 a 1.7 billion year old nuclear reactor was discovered in Africa
mx6Vp TIL that the animals commonly referred to as "Buffalo" in North America are actually not Buffalo at all, they're Bison. True Buffalo look much more similar to long-horned cattle.
aN5b TIL that as a teenager, Lou Reed’s parents made him undergo electroshock therapy 3 times a week in an attempt to cure him of his bisexuality
Raw7 TIL Bruce Lee could perform one hand push-ups using only his thumb and index, perform 50 reps of one arm chin-ups, and throw a single grain of rice in the air and catch it with chop sticks.