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TIL that Snow leopards and other Leopards are not directly related. Snow leopards are closer to tigers than they are to other leopards.

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GAZ1Q TIL Astronaut Scott Kelly was paid $70/ hr by NASA until his retirement where he would be paid $10/hr to compensate for his debriefings and participation as a medical test subject. Kelly spent 520 days in space over four missions
yVBr8 TIL in 1834, an American physician named John Cook Bennett published an article claiming that tomato ketchup helped with stomach disorders, including diarrhea. He even released "ketchup pills," which were marketed as medicine.
mx0KM TIL that infants do not blink at the same rate as adults. Adults blink about 10 times per minute, but infants blink only about 1-2 times per minute. The blink rate increases throughout childhood, and usually catches up to the adult rate by adolescence.
epenL TIL : An Indian sub required 10 months of repair because someone left a hatch open.
GAoXg TIL that The Juilliard School has about 275 pianos, including 231 Steinway grands. Also, that the Strings Dept. allows students to borrow valuable historic stringed instruments for special events. Among the more than 200 such instruments, several are by Stradivari and del Gesù.