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TIL Nasa buys Taco Bell tortillas for space missions because they have up to a one year shelf life

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780yb TIL there were no casualties in the 2022 Cyprus earthquake besides 1,600 chickens that died in a stampede caused by their panic
d8yEE TIL Dogs can understand upto a 1000 human words. They can differentiate between nouns. and verbs. More importantly Dogs also feel emotions love, jealousy etc which was previously thought to be only present in primates. They can even read people better than chimps one of our closest genetic neighbour
ADny4 TIL the real-life inspiration for "The Americans" was not Cold War spies, but 10 Russian deep-cover agents captured in 2010; but the show creator was unimpressed by the public's lukewarm reaction to the case, and figured the story would make for better TV if set in the Cold War.
Z8N84 TIL just by simply reducing the margins of office paper from 1" to 0.75" would result in upwards of 6 million trees saved per year.
W7EYX TIL Aristotle’s views on women are so expansive that they get their own wiki page, He basically asserted that women should be subservient to men to the point where they shouldn’t even be allowed to eat as much food. He also claimed that women were basically incomplete men, and thus inferior