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TIL of the Hybrid Assistive Limb, a commercially available exoskeleton suit

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mdKo TIL that the average age of NASA engineers at the time of Apollo 11 was 28. Nowadays it’s 47
KOAeB TIL That when Crystal Pepsi was released, Coca-Cola released a competitor called Tab Clear, however Tab Clear was intentionally marketed poorly in order to hurt Crystal Pepsi's image by product association. The "born to die" strategy was successful and both campaigns were dead 6 months later.
en7g TIL Dante Alighieri author of The Divine Comedy died a few hours after writing the final lines of paradise the third section of The Divine Comedy
JYeZ1 TIL that the American Alligator once neared extinction, by the 1950s, demands for hides and hunting in SE. USA had almost wiped out the species. In 1967 they were placed on federal protection. Today they are the least concern endangered classification. Florida today has 1.3 Million Alligators
WMxN TIL, when adjusted for inflation, Gone With The Wind grossed $$4,401,358,554.94 making it the highest grossing movie of all time.