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TIL in 2012 a Japanese scientist created a set of violin strings out of spider silk. They have ‘a soft and profound timbre’ when played.

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nMXo TIL: that a man has a bottle garden that he has not watered for 40 years, its still alive due to the plant creating a self sustained ecosystem
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MeZaW TIL that in 2015 a Hezbollah cell was caught stockpiling ammonium nitrate in London
1aGG8 TIL of Jonny Kim. His accomplishments include being a former Navy Seal with 100 combat missions, a Doctorate of Medicine from Harvard, and will soon be an astronaut for NASA
PNbG TIL the United States Airforce provides the use of GPS signals free of charge to the entire world.