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TIL that turkeys will attack or attempt to dominate humans they view as subordinate

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6EdJw TIL that the backup crew for Apollo 12 (who later crewed Apollo 15) played a joke on the main crew by inserting Playboy photos into their wrist mounted checklists worn on the surface of the moon. Nude photos went to the moon 14 years before the first US woman in space.
5YBmD TIL food powder is the most common format of food material in the market.
XEYok TIL that United States has the highest amount of Nobel Prize winners of any country. Most of the winners are in fields of science, particularly physics
EpKV TIL AIDS denialist Christine Maggiore who refused to treat her own HIV or take any drugs that would prevent her from passing HIV to her daughter through pregnancy or breastfeeding died of AIDS…. 3.5 years after her daughter died… of AIDS.
Y7D0G TIL - The longest word in any language is the chemical name for the protein Titin, also known as connectin, which has 189,819 letters? The word takes over three hours to pronounce in its entirety, and it would take more than 2,000 pages to write it out by hand.