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TIL there are 96 bags of human waste on the moon.
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TIL that Mark Cuban was fired for making a sale. Living in an apartment with no bed he made a sale for $1500 commission and was fired that day. It was the last time he ever worked for someone else.
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TIL of Louis Slotin, Manhattan Project physicist who died horribly after his screwdriver slipped and accidentally caused a runaway nuclear reaction.
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TIL I learned about the Delft Thunderclap, an explosion in Delft, Netherlands where a gunpowder store exploded, destroying much of the city and killed Rembrandt's most promising student, Carel Fabritius and destroyed almost all of his works.
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TIL Gambia is actually named "The Gambia" or the "Republic of The Gambia"
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TIL that not only can octopi change their color to match their surroundings, but they can also change the actual texture of their skin as well by controlling the size of projections on their skin (called papillae), creating textures ranging from small bumps to tall spikes.