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TIL Kurt Vonnegut started a graduate degree in anthropology at University of Chicago, but dropped out. Soon after, they mailed him his degree anyway, saying his publication of “Cat’s Cradle” was “halfway decent anthropology” and counted as his dissertation

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Lk45Z TIL about Canvey Wick, an old industrial waste zone that is the most biodiverse place in Britain. Its history as a dumping ground for sediment waste from industrial processes means that it has a wide variety of soil conditions, with the result that it has the equivalent biodiversity of a rainforest.
kJ0r1 TIL there has been only one spacewalk with more than two people, which was on the STS-49 space shuttle mission. Astronauts Pierre Thuot, Rick Hieb, and Thomas Akers performed an unscheduled spacewalk in order to capture a faulty satellite after several previous two-man attempts had failed.
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