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TIL Graphene is thinner than a human hair and stronger than steel. Completely clear, and flexible. If there was an easy way to cultivate it, it could change the manufacturing of so many products.

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R7K59 TIL: Despite alcohol in space being prohibited for NASA astronauts, Buzz Aldrin had a sip of wine on the Moon
JYRWm TIL that when Rudolph Hess, righthand man to Adolf Hitler, flew on an apparently unsanctioned peace mission to Great Britain in 1941, the German public was quickly told that Hess suffered from mental disturbance and hallucinations.
oBgm7 Today I learned with enough Watermelons, you can block an Artillery shot!
Bro5r TIL That the town of Warsaw, Missouri holds the records for the both the highest temperature recorded, and the lowest temperature recorded in Missouri. 118° Fahrenheit in July 1954, and -40° in February 1905
OXv6 TIL that Blockbuster had the chance to buy Netflix for 50 million in 2000 but turned it down to go into business with Enron