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TIL that IPCC report was reviewed and edited by oil company representatives.

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KBO9 TIL in 1973 NASA sent two spiders known as Arabella and Anita into space to see if the could spin a web without gravity. It took the spiders a couple days to figure out, but they eventually ended up making webs that were finer and more complex than their earth counterparts.
p89db TIL the band Blink-182 incorporated under the name “Poo Poo Butt, LLC.” because of how funny it would be to have their accountants, managers and attorneys having to say that over the phone every day.
6Ep1Q TIL In the movie Interstellar on the water planet, there's a constant ticking noise in the background as part of the score. Happening every 1.25 seconds, each tick is a whole day passing on Earth.
yBKv TIL two women discovered a 1000-year-old Viking/Saxon recipe that kills MRSA and Anti-Biotic resistant Super Infections.
l77jr TIL that about one in 2,000 people in the UK is a carrier of variant CJD, or "mad cow" disease, linked to eating contaminated beef. Relatively few people who catch the infectious agent develop symptoms and it's unknown if they can transmit it to others.