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TIL 63% of Arab Americans are Christian
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TiL that upon finishing the sci fi film "Devil Girls From Mars", a then 12 year old Octavia Butler concluded that she could write a better story. Butler went on to win multiple Hugo and Nebula awards and became the first sci-fi writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship.
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TIL that penguins can shoot faeces up to 4feet due to their strong rectal pressure.
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TIL nearly the entire world uses one of 2 forms to say tea, basically derived from the Chinese words 'te' (ie Spanish & English) and 'cha' (ie Hindi & Russian), because of the way tea spread around the world from China. 'Cha' used in places where tea came by land and 'te' where imported over water
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TIL that a group of scientists used mouse skin cells to create stem cells and then used these stem cells to create mouse eggs. These eggs were then fertilized and produced healthy baby offspring. These latter mice were able to have their own babies.
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TIL despite launching at the tail end of a year that had seen much upheaval in the United States, the effect of Apollo 8 was summed up in a telegram sent by a stranger, received by astronaut commander Frank Borman, after the mission, that stated simply "Thank you Apollo 8. You saved 1968."