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TIL NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and AMD CEO Lisa Su are not only leaders of major tech companies but also cousins.

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lorYA TIL NASA officially banned consuming Alcohol in space in 1972 after sherry was proposed for Skylab meals, but it never really went away. “NASA will tell you there is no alcohol aboard the ISS” says astronaut Clayton Anderson. “As a person who lived there for five months, I’ll tell you that’s bogus."
K8wJ TIL The word “shrapnel” comes from Henry Shrapnel, a Major General in the British Army and inventor of the spherical case cannonball.
Zp8a TIL Asia hold 60% of the world population on 30% of the landmass
xaE7 TIL a irish youth snatched a homeless mans pet bunny from his arms and threw it off the bridge they were standing on, the homeless man immediately jumped after it and resuscitated the bunny before he passed out and firefighters saved him, the youth was later convicted of torture and animal cruelty
DQKOY TIL that sperm can work together in a sort of "sperm train" for faster collective movement