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TIL that female wasps consume wood fibers and mix it with their saliva to build and waterproof their nests

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kJVPB TIL that NASA lost a $330m Mars Orbiter in 1999, immediately before mars orbit was achieved, because one of the contracted US companies used imperial units instead of metric.
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