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TIL one of the first radio communications from an aircraft in flight was "Roy, come and get this goddamn cat.”

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0w8a5 TIL Devil Facial Tumour Disease is a cancer affecting Tasmanian Devils. It wiped out 95% of affected colonies between 1996 and 2015. The devils already had a gene which fought the tumour, but its frequency increased with natural selection. Devil populations now survive in disease-stricken areas.
5V59R TIL Young U.S. men having a lot less sex in the 21st century, study shows
ZQLp TIL that punk label Stiff Records released an album called “The Wit & Wisdom of Ronald Reagan” that was blank on both sides. It sold 30,000 copies.
erb TIL that Abraham Lincoln did not trust himself to carry or be around knives because he feared he would spontaneously kill himself.
9Y7LX TIL of two neighbor galaxies nicknamed "Akira" and "Tetsuo". Akira is a 'red geyser': a galaxy that has stopped making stars because its massive black hole is stealing gas from a nearby galaxy, Tetsuo, leading to friction and temperatures that prevent gas from clumping together (1million+ degrees)