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TIL the US government accidentally discovered the first Gamma Ray Bursts using their spy satellites during the Cold War

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LkOdd TIL that Disney artist and animator Ruthie Thompson, who worked on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), is still alive today at age 107.
KOKr9 TIL Late in his life, Charles Lindbergh had affairs that produced three children by a German woman and two children by her sister. These children only found out who their father was using DNA testing after his death.
ZpP8o TIL that there is plastic eating bacteria that can turn trash into silk. Scientists turned to bacteria that are naturally able to consume polyethylene. They then genetically edited the microbes so that they could also produce a silk-like material.
ADAKl TIL: Ronald Reagan believed that if the US had to have border walls, the walls would have doors, and the doors would be open to anyone with the will and the heart to get to the United States.
wowJ TIL the security guard who discovered a pipe bomb at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, alerted police, and helped evacuate the area was later considered a suspect by the FBI and presumed guilty by the media. He was exonerated when a homegrown terrorist confessed nine years later.