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TIL: NASA Deleted the first line of their mission statement in 2006……“to understand and protect our home planet”

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jjop TIL US Marine Jack Lucas survived and earned the Medal of Honor by pulling two live grenades under his body during Iwo Jima. Later, he joined the airborne and survived a training jump when both parachutes failed to deploy.
16DV7 TIL that Marsha M Linehan, the creator of Dialect Behavior Therapy (DBT) was once an institutionalized patient who was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia beginning her "descent into hell". At 18 she could legally leave on her own and went on to be a professor in psychology, diagnosed with BPD.
MDO7 TIL: if you take the cost of the raw materials in a human body; A human costs about $1985.77
m10Gp TIL that "Essential Oils" are not essential in that they are necessary, but because they carry the "essence" of the plant. However, there are "Essential Fatty Acids" that are necessary for humans
BgRBK TIL that a "Jellyfish Lake" exists in Palau, where millions of jellyfish evolved without stingers over thousands of years, allowing humans to safely swim alongside them.