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TIL Steven Spielberg is the creator of the Medal of Honor video game series

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4Ka5 TIL Slovak agriculture scientists grew soy beans in the irradiated zone of Chernobyl to see how they would adapt. The plants adapted within a single generation, producing more protective proteins, including one that is known to help protect human blood from radiation.
mWoP TIL that, of the 15 most successful movies of 2014, none was from an original screenplay, one (American Sniper) was from a book, the rest are remakes, sequels, and comic adaptations
pkEp TIL there’s a momument dedicated to the lab mice in Russia. It’s to express gratitude for the animals’ sacrifice and to honor their contribution to science
VB5l4 TIL strabane a small town in the north of ireland,produced the printer of the declaration of Independence John dunlap, the grandfather of 28th president Woodrow Wilson and a general who fought in the american civil war.
okwo TIL machine guns mounted on early propeller aircraft had to be timed to fire bullets through the spinning blades without hitting them