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DQQWj TIL King John of England deposited the crown jewels with the Knights Templar in London when he was in trouble before the Magna Carta. They were providing the world’s first international banking company.
6vKY TIL in July 1943, an injured Australian soldier single-handedly carried 12 American casualties to safety whilst under heavy fire at Mt. Tambu
yQVbl Let’s ask Betsy Dresser, the senior vice president of research at the Audubon Center for Research of Endangered Species in New Orleans, who has raised several litters of small African wildcat clones. “Oh yes, the clones are very much wild animals with wild instincts,” she says. “They bite and scratch. You can’t handle them without gloves and nets.”
bWy7 Til that a vulcanized rubber object, like a truck tire, is literally a single giant molecule
nbBB TIL Lockheed Martin accidentally dropped a NASA satellite while turning it sideways, causing $135M in damages