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TIL Teddy Roosevelt's Son Died Flying for the US During WWI. When His Body Was Discovered Behind Enemy Lines, the Germans Gave Him A Full Military Burial With Honors.

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jNARQ TIL of Thad Roberts, a former NASA intern who spent 6 years in prison for stealing 17 lbs of moon rocks. He wanted to ‘give the moon’ to a girl he liked, so they stole the rocks together, spread them across his bed, had sex on top of them, and then tried to sell them online to undercover FBI agents
JyVv TIL of a new birth control method for men that has had a 100% success rate in test subjects so far. Developed by an Indian doctor, it works similar to an ‘on off’ switch, and would afford countless families across the globe an incredibly cheap method to control the size of their families.
Bggr TIL the Galileo mission may have accidentally triggered a nuclear explosion on Jupiter
8O98 TIL that trees are able to communicate with each other through an underground network known as the ‘wood-wide web’. This system allows trees to loan sugar to neighboring trees, send warning signals about injury or disease, nurture their own offspring, and donate resources to conserve the forest.
N7JGQ TIL As a personal favor to “a friend”, just hours before he left office, Arnold Schwarzenegger commuted Esteban Núñez’s sentence from 16 to 7 years. Against protocol, he didn't inform the victim's family nor the prosecutors about the commutation. They learned about it in a call from a reporter