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TIL: That the dewey decimal system, used to classify and order books in libraries, has one for Extraterrestrial History: 999. Aparently the guy who made this system in the 1800s was already prepared for an interplanetary/interstellar future for humanity

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ne8aB TIL Louis Silberkleit graduated from New York Law School, co-founded MLJ Magazines (later known as Archie Comics), and served as its publisher for many years
b60Q7 TIL about Atomic Gardening, where plants are subjected to radiation in hope of creating useful hybrids. And it's still done today.
6978 TIL A university in Pennsylvania sells the Plan B pill in a vending machine.
JYkDQ TIL during the 2014 Groundhog Day festival, New York mayor Bill de Blasio dropped the Staten Island Zoo's weather-predicting groundhog on its head, killing it -- which was then covered up by zoo officials who claimed Staten Island Chuck had "died of natural causes"
N5EE TIL that a US Air Force Veteran, posing as a Guantanamo Bay inmate for a training routine, was beaten to the point of serious brain injury by guards.