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TIL that NASA has sent spiders, bees, ants, flies and silkworms into orbit to learn about how bugs react to low gravity conditions.

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PYnEL TIL Whitney Houston died in suite 434 of the Beverly Hilton hotel. After a reported stream of insensitive guests who partied in the room “like Whitney did” and even snapped pictures of themselves lying in the bath where it happened, the hotel removed the room
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M7oO8 Today I learned that in 1994, a plane was flying from Moscow to Hong Kong when the pilot's children got into the cockpit and accidentally turned off the autopilot. This resulted in a plane crash that killed all 75 people on the plane.