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TIL President Harding died as one of the most popular presidents. Subsequent revelations caused him to be judged as one of the worst

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m151M TIL that 200 nations signed The Outer Space Treaty in agreement that any space exploration should be mindful of planetary protection so as not to contaminate potential life on other worlds with Earthly microbes
p8yGG TIL there's a debate about whether math was invented or discovered. Even though math is used to measure and predict and model, it's debated whether math is inherent to the universe or if math is just something we came up with to describe/measure/predict natural phenomenon.
9w1dM TIL that the initial title of Alien was Star Beast. Its writer disliked it and changed it to Alien after noting the number of times that the word appeared in the script. The writer and his cowriter liked the new title's simplicity and its double meaning as both a noun and an adjective.
BrRND TIL That Octopus And Squid Possess The Super-Power To Rewrite Their RNA. Researchers say that this type of RNA editing can allow a single octopus gene to produce an array of various proteins from the same DNA.
Lkk8Q Yes, but it takes a long, long time.