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TIL NASA helped the airline industry save billions on fuel with one simple fix

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AD8px TIL about explosives. Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
Y7D7A TIL Oranges can be artificially colored in the US, hiding green skin underneath
Mem9K TIL about Venus' flower basket. In Japan this sponge is a symbol of eternal love as each basket commonly contains a pair of mated shrimp. It also creates glass fibre by extracting silica from sea water
rR5Wy TIL that the Bone Wars were a period in which two paleontologists, Othniel Marsh and Edward Cope, searched for dinosaur fossils competitively, to the point of bribery, theft and destroying bones to keep them away from each other. They discovered over 130 species, but both were financially ruined.
9wNlD TIL Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis & Clark expedition, mysteriously died on Oct. 10, 1809, just three years after their mission's end. His close friends, including Thomas Jefferson, believed he committed suicide...but his family claimed he was murdered. The true cause of death is still contested.