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TIL Tony Hawk’s son is married to Kurt Cobain’s daughter

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maME TIL a cat’s memory is at least 200 times better than a dog’s. But felines are more selective, and remember what they think is useful to them. Short term memory for a dog is about five minutes; cats remember much longer, up to 16 hours
OGYR1 TIL of the Superman memory crystal, a nanostructured glass used for permanently recording digital data. It can store up to 360 terabytes worth of data for billions of years. It is so durable that even at 189 °C (372 °F), its decay time is comparable to the age of the Universe (13.8×10^9 years).
9YOxB Til someone broke into the british museum of natural history to steal close to 300 exotic birds to sell the feathers to fly tiers so that he can buy a golden flute.
N76nJ TIL a NASA Little Joe 2 rocket ripped itself apart during an escape system test, a failure thay ultimately was an important demonstration of how well the system worked after the boilerplate capsule was pulled safely away from the doomed rocket.
0d8Gy TIL Garmin had to skip naming the fourth iteration of Fenix, 4, because the phonetic pronunciation combo of both ‘Fenix’ and ‘4’ together in Mandarin is basically translated as “fast rise to quick death.”