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TIL NASA's spacecraft crawler transport vehicle gets 35 feet/gallon of diesel fuel.

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j6yQN TIL 12-year-old Bahia Bakari was the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Indian Ocean that killed her mom & 151 others. She had little swimming experience & no life vest. So she clung to a piece of the wreckage & floated in heavy seas for over 9 hours, much of it in darkness, before being rescued.
XEn8r TIL that it takes your GPS receiver up to 12 minutes to adjust the time correctly. The GPS time is presently 18 seconds ahead of UTC because they started timekeeping in 1980 and can't factor in leap seconds.
8oKZ TIL that the children of identical twins test genetically as half-siblings instead of first cousins
e0lPE TIL Wes Borland of Limp Bizkit runs a cat rescue in Detroit.
groa7 TIL Human brain was bigger 3000 years ago