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TIL :The The floating turd mystery that still haunts NASA

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jNNXv TIL a group of small (1 mm) adult Caenorhabditis elegans worms, living in petri dishes enclosed in aluminum canisters, survived reentry and impact with the ground and were recovered weeks after the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster on February 1, 2003, found alive on April 28 of the same year.
Dbje TIL that a man planted 7,000 trees to make a guitar shaped forest as tribute to his late wife.
e0Bxg TIL Target owns the license for Targét, the pseudo-French pronunciation of Target
j6j5n TIL that U.S. cities with more country music on the radio have higher suicide rates
QJOwp TIL There is a 1910 film version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein that was produced by Thomas Edison