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TIL "Biosphere 2" was a closed ecological system which produced food sufficiency for the seven human inhabitants

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ADNDB TIL the US was ready to drop a third nuclear bomb on Japan by August 19, 1945. Japan surrendered on August 15, 1945.
nWgvd TIL that a 29-year-old J. J. Abrams did uncredited work with Steven Spielberg on the script for 'Casper' (1995), with Spielberg making the movie "one night at a time...there was a script, but they ended up basically improvising every night over dinner, and the next day, they'd film it".
Em9X TIL that the man who discovered the precursor to Viagra presented his findings at a national urology meeting with a chemically induced boner, which he revealed when he removed his pants during the presentation.
YPPx TIL Pigeons are one of the most intelligent birds on the planet. Pigeons can also recognize all 26 letters of the English language as well as being able to conceptualize. Also, Pigeons can differentiate between photographs and even differentiate between two different human beings in a photograph.
7rR7X TIL that when Nicolaus Copernicus proposed heliocentrism in 1543, there was only mild opposition from the Church. But 73 years later Galileo's defence of the same was called heresy. He was threatened with torture and put under house arrest.