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TIL That concentrated Orange Juice was invented at the request of the US Army in WWII, to prevent troops suffering from scurvy, as they did not like the Vitamin C tablets.

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VZ78 TIL When researching the film “Cast Away”, Screen writer William Broyal Jr deliberately stranded himself on an isolated island for one week to force himself to find food, water and obtain shelter. During this time, a volleyball washed up on shore. This was the inspiration for Wilson.
x6gOB TIL this year 17 y.o. Hannah Cairo disproved a major mathematical conjecture proposed 40 years ago
PbPO TIL researchers have invented a helmet that gives humans simulated 360° of Vision, allowing a person to avoid a ball thrown from behind and catch an object tossed outside the normal human field of view.
6xKZ TIL…..There is a 3.4 acre indoor Biosphere in Oracle, Arizona that researchers lived in for 2 years and 20 months to see what living on Mars would be like. There are 5 biome areas; a rainforest, ocean, wetlands, savannah grassland, fog desert, and agricultural system. As well as a human habitat.
vPgrr TIL that on 20 July 1970, locals in New Jersey saved Lucy the Elephant - a six-story, 60-foot, 90-ton wooden landmark - by moving her two blocks. Built in 1882, she’s served as a tavern, cottage, office, restaurant and Airbnb. Lucy remains the oldest surviving roadside tourist attraction in America.