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TIL Catharine Conley s job title is Planetary Protection Officer

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Br5Ze TIL Linus Torvald originally wanted to name his OS Freax but it was an administrator from one of FTP server from which the OS was hosted who put the files under under a folder named "Linux".
Yp9gx TIL Fleetwood Mac's album Tusk broke the record for the most expensive album production, costing over $1 million ($3.5+ million in today's money) to record.
awBa9 TIL Obsidian Blades are so sharp that they can cut cells and DNA. They are used are used in modern medicine because the sharp blades create incisions which heal faster.
QNVAd TIL that during WWII, nearly 1,000 Polish children were deported to Siberian gulags. Starving and displaced, they found refuge in India, welcomed by Maharaja Jam Saheb of Nawanagar, who built them a home, gave them schooling, and treated them as his own.
BYdk TIL Doritos could be made without the powder and taste exactly the same. It was left on because it was decided that the residue left on your fingers was part of the “Doritos experience”