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TIL an Israeli company tried seeding the Moon with waterbears.

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VBRw0 TIL that since the colonisation of the America's the first visit by a reigning British monarch was in only 1939 to increase support for aid in an upcoming war.
9DZp TIL a man tried to shoot an armadillo but the bullet ricocheted off the shell and hit his mother in law
7rwNL TIL when insects are electrocuted by bug zappers, it can spread a mist containing insect parts up to about 2 metres from the device. The air around the bug zapper can become contaminated by bacteria and viruses that can be inhaled by people or settle on food.
KOj5J TIL that Sergei Rachmaninoff's famously massive hands may have come from Marfan's syndrome
RPoa TIL there’s an experimental township in India founded in 1968 called Auroville. Where citizens are from all over the world and there’s no money or religion.