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TIL That after having been flown on more than 130 space shuttle missions between 1981 and 2011, M&M's created special space shuttle themed M&M's for the mission control team and astonauts of the final space shuttle mission on July 8th 2011

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wLbk6 TIL It's more likely that you'll die by a lightning strike than it is to die in a flood.
oByb7 TIL that ever since the first atomic bomb tests, the air is contaminated with enough radioactive particles to make modern steel useless in highly sensitive radiological instruments. Today, only steel made before these tests, such as from sunken warships, can be used to make such devices.
D4be TIL the University of Victoria offers courses in “Becoming Batman”
KOyX4 TIL of Christian Adamek, a 15 year old High School Student that faced criminal charges and possible registration as a Sex Offender after streaking during a High School Football Game, 2 days after the stunt he took his own life.
8eyDK TIL Scientists are close to achieving "de-extinction" projects using CRISPR technology, which could bring back extinct species like woolly mammoths and the Dodo bird