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TIL the Sputnik 1 didn’t have any sensors, only a radio transmitter and it was launched 60 years ago.

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R7Zd4 TIL Red Harden, the builder of the custom Jaguar E-Type hearse seen in Harold and Maude, did not see the movie until 2016, 45 years after its debut.
9YJBX TIL over 300 species of fruit depend on bats for pollination and some fly over 100 miles/hour. Without bats we wouldn’t have cacao to make chocolate. Definitely changed my previous views on them!
ADw4d TIL that the phrase "Jet Black" refers to a gemstone and not an airplane
VMXlB TIL That when the VOICE hotline was set up earlier this year for reporting criminal activity of illegal aliens, it was flooded with calls reporting space aliens and Bigfoot sightings
wlNo TIL a geneticist at Utah State University has created “spider-goats.” He took the gene that encodes dragline silk from an orb-weaver spider and placed it among the DNA that prompts milk production in a goat’s udders. The silk produced is stronger than Kevlar and is suitable for ligament repairs.