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TIL that bacteria which has evolved to be able to survive in the highly toxic Berkeley Pit superfund site produces a chemical compound not found anywhere else with anticancer potential.

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0jm1 TIL that Buzz Aldrin’s first words on the Moon were “Beautiful view.”
yVVVe TIL of Kármán line - a line to delineate aeronautics and astronautics, to differentiate between earth's atmosphere and outer space, maintained by the FAI. It is situated at a distance of 100km from the earth's surface.
QJr56 TIL that dogs can suffer from PTSD, and even experience flashbacks of traumatic experiences.
VMmgp TIL, Lego HQ in Billund, Denmark has an underground vault containing every Lego set ever made.
VMPWQ TIL - Walt Disney negotiated the rights to build a nuclear reactor in 1967, after hiring a German physicist, Heinz Haber, to lay the groundwork for research into nuclear energy, which would be used to power Disneyland.