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TIL Burritos are popular food for astronauts in space because it's easy to eat and doesn't produce crumbs that could float around and damage equipment

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4Xm5w TIL that sending a cruel leader with a group of incompetent men on a dangerous, nearly impossible mission, in the hope they would not return, was likely the main reason for the spanish expedition to find "El Dorado" in 1560.
N7ab8 TIL that velociraptors were only a few feet tall, had feathers and was more like a big predatory chicken. They are extremely oversized in Jurassic Park
n5mr TIL that in 2001, a Philadelphia Police Officer died in a suspicious scuba diving accident the day after he testified against another officer at a disciplinary hearing
yQeMv TIL the "blue ribbon" in the name of Pabst Blue Ribbon does not come from it winning a first place blue ribbon in any contests. It comes the fact that little blue ribbons were tied around the bottles between 1882 and 1916.
yQKXX TIL that Insulin is the 6th most expensive liquid in the world at $9,400 per gallon with prices expected to rise in the future.