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TIL that in 2002 NASA bought parts for the space shuttle on ebay because intel wouldn’t make them anymore.

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e01Z5 TIL Rats were not to blame for the spread of plague during the Black Death, according to a study by a team from the universities of Oslo and Ferrara. After comparing infection data to models, they concluded that the spread of the Black Death can be "largely ascribed to human fleas and body lice".
K4O4 TIL kangaroos give birth to an underdeveloped fetus called a joey. When the joey is born it crawls into its mother’s pouch and attaches to a nipple where it grows and develops to a juvenile stage.
v1kxL TIL that almost ALL “designer” sunglasses are owned by one company, Luxottica. That’s why all the “designer” brands are all “Made in Italy”
6EyRw TIL that a ton of old mobile phones has 100 times the concentration of gold found in an actual gold mine.
n7xP TIL Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech is owned by CBS and it is illegal to distribute it