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TIL that astronauts from the Apollo missions reported that lunar dust smells similar to spent gunpowder after they returned from spacewalks and removed their helmets inside the module.

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wLpyM TIL an Ohio company including a physicist & biomimicry expert is developing a football helmet liner based on the shock-absorbing pelt of hedgehog quills. They've mimicked the structure of a hedgehog quill with a polymer which lets it bend but not break & mimicked the spacing & angle of each quill.
16npd TIL - what it’s like behind the scenes of the UK’s largest timber importer and processor. With over 90acres of land, the site has more than 70,000 m3 of timber on site.
wNXM TIL: Campbell’s now estimates 40% of the Cream of Mushroom soup sold in the US goes into making green bean casserole.
grKa4 TIL world's first vending machine was a holy water dispenser.
VvZG TIL that baby tiger sharks fight each other in the womb, with the largest embryo eating all but one of its siblings.