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TIL that the Moon smells like gunpowder and Space smells like burnt steak.

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graY8 TIL 2 teens secretly scaled the Acropolis on 5/30/41 in Nazi-occupied Greece & stole the Nazi flag that was flying atop it. Their heroic act of defiance inspired Greeks to believe themselves capable of resisting the Nazis & their occupation of Greece. The teens were never caught & died of old age!
p8Yob TIL that trees go through a process similar to hibernation called dormancy, and that is what keeps them alive during the winter.
8jYP TIL Isaac Asimov refused the invitation to visit friend and famed A.I. pioneer Marvin Minsky’s lab at MIT in the 1960s because he was “Writing about really intelligent robots of the future and was sure that if he came and saw the clumsy ones that we were making it would spoil his imagination.”
GgKg TIL: Grease Trivia - Saran wrap was used in lieu of condoms in the 50’s - Thus its appearance in the Grease Lightning number.
jNmDn TIL that ants do not have lungs. Oxygen enters through tiny holes all over the body and carbon dioxide leaves through the same holes. There are no blood vessels. The heart is a long tube that pumps colorless blood from the head back to the rear and then back up to the head again.