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TIL Astronaut Ice Cream has never been taken into space

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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.
X05Kr TIL Magenta isn't a real color. Turns out its just a placeholder that your brain uses when it gets a mixture of Red and Blue light without any Green light
WZZB TIL that in 2002 the US passed a law allowing it to invade the Netherlands to prevent US military personnel to be tried by the International Criminal Court
E1jeP TIL Cleopatra often used clever stagecraft to woo potential allies. For example, when she met Mark Antony, she arrived on a golden barge made up to look like the goddess Aphrodite. Antony, who considered himself the embodiment of Dionysus, was instantly enchanted.
ANRJo TIL Gray Whales Mate in MMF Threeways