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TIL NASA will pay you $19,000 to lay in bed for two months!

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Wkxp8 TIL The phrase "cool as a cucumber" is actually a scientific fact: The inside temperature of a cucumber can be up to 20 degrees cooler than the outside air.
kJLY4 TIL that Jack Black's mom was Judith Love Cohen, a NASA engineer who helped create the abort-guidance system that rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts. Also according to one obituary, she went to the office the day Jack was born and took a printout of a problem with her, that she solved later that day.
0wQVL TIL the US had nuclear-armed suicide commandos called Green Light Teams
4ZOw TIL in 2004, there were three major computer virus authors at “war” with each other. They were the Netsky, Bagle and Mydoom worms. Netsky was most famous for comments within the code insulting the authors of the other viruses and, in some cases, routines that removed versions of the other viruses.
wLMwM TIL: the eye may have evolved, independently, as many as 40 times