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TIL that under Operation Dirty Trick, the US would blame Fidel Castro if the 1962 Mercury space flight, which was carrying astronaut John Glenn, crashed.

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1RvW TIL ‘uncopywritable’ is the longest word in the English language that doesn’t repeat a letter.
Yp4QW TIL that the blue power ranger of mighty morphin left his role after homophobic harassment by the production crew which almost drove him to suicide
j6G9p TIL that scientists created a 60 year long experiment in Siberia, selectively breeding wild foxes who showed friendly traits. 40 generations later they were as friendly as dogs!
b6MD7 TIL water exists on the sun
kV1B TIL in Svalbard, there is a vault containing over 800,000 seed samples to preserve the worlds food crops in case of human or natural disaster.