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TIL Tippmann has created a real life ‘Nuketown’ paintball field

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Y7g1G TIL that even though elephants have 10 times more body cells than humans, they’re still less likely to get cancer.
x6PJ0 TIL loons have their feet so far back on their body for swimming efficiency that they can barely walk on land, having to push themselves along on their bellies; they also can only take off from large bodies of water
gr6xL TIL Voyager 2 remains the only spacecraft to have ever visited the ice giants Uranus and Neptune
kOxVB TIL a man was cooked alive in a 270° pressure cooker oven along with 12,000 pounds of tuna. In CA’s largest workplace safety violation settlement ever ($6M), Bumble Bee Tuna agreed to pay $1.5M to the deceased’s family, $1.5M to state government and courts, and $3M to purchase new automated ovens.
6M8Q TIL that during the first moon landing, the average age in the mission control room was 28.