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TIL as of 2014, there were ~250 corpses that had been cryonically preserved. Only one cryonically preserved corpse pre-dates 1974

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QN97M TIL about the "Battle Of The Beams", a period in WW2 when the Luftwaffe used a number of increasingly accurate systems of radio navigation for night bombing, and the British fought back with a variety of their own increasingly effective means, involving jamming and deception signals.
wLX07 TIL that tiny ocean plants called phytoplankton contribute 50 to 85 percent of the oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere.
LOoQ TIL that the phrase “Elementary, my dear Watson” appears in none of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
VwBp TIL kangaroos barely emit any methane. Scientists want to harvest the bacteria from their colons so they can transfer this “skill” to cows, thereby reducing greenhouse gases.
e0DnJ TIL Larry Bird made 649 3-pointers in his entire career, Steph Curry made 688 threes in just 2015 and 2016 alone