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TIL that Space Smells like Seared Steak.

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4XA5a TIL that in 1950, to test the potential impact of a biological attack, the US Navy released a supposedly harmless bacteria over San Francisco, hospitalizing several people and killing one.
woYaM TIL Crocodiles can survive two to three years between meals which are ground up by rocks they have previously eaten in one of their stomach chambers
mxxOy TIL that the term "incel" and the concept of "involuntary celibacy" was coined by a woman.
rN9Xw TIL after the death of Bruce Lee in 1973, film industries in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea raced to find his replacement in order to build off of his legacy. This period, later known as 'Bruceploitation', would feature actors with screen names like Bruce Li, Bruce Lai, Brute Lee, etc.
R5kQw TIL about the story of Ada Blackjack, an Inuit woman from Alaska who was stranded on an uninhabited Wrangel Island for two years in the early 1920s, and was the only survivor of her group after being rescued.