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TIL that India’s Mars mission cost less than the movie “Gravity.”

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Wke5B TIL About "Event 201" a high-level pandemic exercise held on October 18, 2019, in New York, NY by Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which simulated the World wide impact of a Corona-virus pandemic
PZBV TIL 44% of the people who didn’t evacuate for Hurricane Katrina stayed because they didn’t want to abandon their pets, this prompted major changes to state and federal laws regarding the evacuation of pets during disasters.
wLpxJ TIL of "Dogwood Winters" in which late April - early May cold snaps are common. Farmers would predict these by whether or not the Dogwood trees had bloomed, and use this to determine when it would be safe to plant their crops.
BrLeL TIL that cannabis grows in the wild in the Himalayan region of India and Nepal
gnAb TIL In the U.S. an estimated 300,000 deaths per year may be attributable to obesity.