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TIL the USSR beat the US at nearly everything in the space race (besides putting humans on the Moon)

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1aDeW TIL Bananas can not reproduce. They have no seeds and are entirely reliant on the farmer to cultivate them.
VBKyQ Today I learned about the battle of Wabash, aka the battle of a thousand slain, considered one of the worst defeats in US military history in which 1400 Army troops faced 1100 Native Americans resulting in 21 Native American deaths and almost 700 American deaths
pYdMN TIL Navy SEAL “Lone Survivor” Marcus Luttrell experienced an insane 11-inch growth spurt after High School Graduation going from 5’6 154lbs at 18 to 6’5 262lbs at 24.
j6NxM TIL about the Widmanstätten pattern wich forms in asteroids and because of many factors including temperature, pressure, time and iron/nickel content, it's impossible to recreate on earth in the same way
8vjV TIL Of ‘Project Thor’: a terrifying weapon system that is shockingly simple - 6 m. Tungsten rods launched from near Earth orbit, invisible to radar, could strike anywhere on earth, impact speed of Mach 10, impact equal to a tactical nuclear bomb but with no explosives.