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TIL: The 34 yr-long Lenski Experiment has studied over 75,000 generations of E.coli since 1988 to understand evolution.

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n08P TIL The creator/father of frisbee golf was cremated after death and made into a frisbee in 2002
DBor TIL the United States Air Force nearly detonated an atomic bomb over North Carolina in 1961. The bomb was 260 times more powerful than the device which devasted Hiroshima in 1945.
yQnXa TIL only 2% of Ford buyers took the $27 seat belt option, in 1956. And in the 80's, less than 15% of Americans said they used seat belts and a Gallup poll showed that 65% of Americans opposed mandatory belt laws. Now "more than 90% buckle up regularly".
1nGd TIL: Gypsy is actually short for Egyptian.
GPNj TIL a tiny organism found in space has baffled scientists who think it may be a “seed” arriving to our stratosphere via comet. It has a woven coating, a metal shell, and contains ooze of a biological nature.