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YZRW TIL There are no more WWI veterans left
V7jk TIL astronauts discard their clothes after each use. Since it cost about $10,000 to get one pound of cargo to the ISS it is more cost effective for them to discard their cloths when they get dirty instead of wasting water by washing them.
Y7eYP TIL scientists in 2002 reconstructed and synthesized a visual pigment gene present in the last common ancestor of birds and crocodiles (archosaurs).
QNjWM TIL of the Age of the Sturlungs, a civil war in the Icelandic Commonwealth where chieftains fought each other and culminating in the signing of the Old Covenant leading to Norwegian kingship.
b67W7 TIL In Confucianism, there are five grades of mourning obligation, depending on one's relation to the person that died. The death of one's mother or father requires 27 months of mourning while second cousins or first cousins once removed only require 3 months of mourning.