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TIL that Félicette, the only cat to survive a spaceflight, was honored in 2019 with a memorial at France's International Space University.

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8eBOa TIL that in Roman Republic women were not given personal names. Rather their names would reflect their ancestry. Sisters would have the same names differentiated by a number (or if there are only two sisters they be called the older and the younger) and later in life by their husband's name
kJ6YE Til when Cleopatra and Julius Caesar met and subsequently became lovers, she was 21 and he was 52
e0Nn5 TIL When 117 year old Marie-Louise Meilleur became the world's oldest person, she was confined to her bedroom, and she could only hear when people shouted directly into her right ear. One of her sons was also living in the same nursing home, and her oldest living daughter was 90
GYN7N TIL 70 percent of the world’s Macadamia Nuts came from one tree in Australia. All of Hawaii’s macadamias share distinctive markers with a tiny wild grouping of trees in Gympie, suggesting that all of the state’s modern crops were likely cloned out of a single Australian tree.
lJVN TIL that 1 in 10 of the USA’s bridges are rated “structurally deficient” and only 38% of the pavement on roads is in “good” condition. It would take about $85 billion annually to improve US roads and bridges.