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TIL Plankton can refer to microscopic organisms that live in the air as well as the ocean

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WkxEL TIL Astronauts of Apollo 16 and 17 reported Moon dust to be "soft like snow, yet strangely abrasive, with a taste and smell of gunpowder."
WWdL TIL that in 1946 Kodak customers complained about film developing cloudy. Kodak investigated & found the corn husks used for packing was radioactive. They discovered something that was not public knowledge; the packaging was exposed to fallout from the world’s first nuclear bomb explosion.
8ORK TIL Michael Anderson Godwin was charged with murder and sentenced to execution by electric chair. After his lawyer had his sentence reduced to just life in prison, Godwin died by accidentally electrocuting himself while sitting on the steel toilet in his cell.
veg4 TIL that 8 out of every 10 German troops killed in World War II died fighting the Soviets
VOZD TIL Salvation Army and Goodwill have almost singlehandedly crippled Africa’s clothing industry