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TIL an Israeli company tried seeding the Moon with waterbears.

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O04g TIL the worlds oldest football (soccer ball) is from 1540 and was found on a castle roof in 1981
9O6M TIL Atari programmers met with Atari CEO Ray Kassar in May 1979 to demand that the company treat developers as record labels treated musicians, with royalties and their names on game boxes. Kaplan said no and that “anyone can do a cartridge.” So the programmers left Atari and founded Activision
DQeBD TIL that the film version of the musical "In the Heights" nearly wasn't produced because Universal wanted a bankable star in the cast. While the film was in limbo, its writer Lin-Manuel Miranda went on vacation and bought a copy of Ron Chernow's "Hamilton", which inspired the show
BrXMb TIL GravityLight is an LED light powered by a bag filled with 20 lbs of rocks or earth, attached to a cord, which slowly descends and powers the light for up to 20 minutes & takes only seconds to reset. Intended as a replacement for kerosene lamps in the developing world it has no operating costs
yQRvV TIL the 1904 St Louis Olympics was almost entirely an American event. Due to the cost, time and difficulty of travelling to St Louis, 523 of the 630 total athletes were US Citizens.