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TIL - Water was probably delivered to Earth from space

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1aRVP TIL that the extinct Carolina parakeet may have become poisonous from eating toxic seeds, because cats were noted to die after eating the birds
6bKW TIL the first woman to earn a PhD in Computer Science was a nun.
vPLYL TIL Richard Feynman and his wife, Gweneth Howarth, bought a Dodge Tradesman Maxivan in 1975, and had it painted with Feynman diagrams. The license plate was ‘QANTUM’.
6EJZ7 TIL at the U.S. Open and other U.S.-based tennis tournaments, the men and women play with different balls; the men play with the slower, heavy-duty felt while the women play with the faster, regular-duty felt
5Xv8 TIL people of the Mongol empire NEVER washed their clothes or themselves because they believed washing would pollute the water and anger the dragons that controlled the water cycle.