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TIL that the song “Why can’t we be Friends?” was played in space when Soviet cosmonauts and U.S. astronauts joined together in 1975 for the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project.

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Ypg77 TIL that the impossible-to-remove-cleanly foil seal on medication bottles was developed because someone poisoned 7 people by adding cyanide to Tylenol bottles in Chicago drug stores in 1982.
okrR TIL that Reddit is the 55th most popular website on the Internet
yVOPX TIL that ants outnumber humans by 2.5 million times. 20 quadrillion total.
awAJL TIL in 1969, upon request from Richard Nixon, NASA made 250 display plaques for the 50 US states, 135 countries, and the UN. Flags from all the countries and states were flown on board Apollo 11 to the moon and back, and were gifted to each respective state along with fragments of the lunar surface.
mxDPv TIL Glaucoma is almost always caused by too much pressure inside one or both eyes. People don’t typically experience symptoms until the optic nerve has already been damaged and glaucoma usually occurs later in life, but it can happen at any age