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TIL about ShipGoo001, novel bacteria and archaea, accidentally found in the rudder housing of a research ship.

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mjkP TIL that during America’s eugenics movement some 60,000 people were involuntarily sterilized. The Supreme Court upheld the practice in an opinion written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who wrote that “three generations of imbeciles is enough.”
0dLy TIL the Black Death still exists, and there are roughly 10 - 15 reported cases each year in the US
jNDJj TIL of the Falcon Sex Hat, a hat that allows a falcon to have sex with a breeders head to collect the semen.
GPjj TIL The Treaty of Ghent of 1814 once contained a clause that if Britain and Spain were to go to war, the U.S. would be given the rights to “protect” occupy Canada for a period up to 20 years, after which the U.S. could buy it for 50 million if 2/3rd of Canadians voted to stay part of the U.S..
9w6gQ TIL that NASA built an elaborate escape route and bunker for Apollo engineers working on the launchpad, which had to take dozens of factors into account to withstand the absolutely massive explosion that would occur if the Saturn V exploded on the launchpad.