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TIL Only 1 Bee Species Can Pollinate a Vanilla Bean Orchid And it May Be Extinct. Almost All Vanilla Pollination is Done by Hand.

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QyM TIL Curiosity’s wheels have a pattern that leaves patterned tracks in the sandy surface of Mars. That pattern is used by on-board cameras to judge the distance traveled. The pattern itself is Morse code for “JPL”
j6EvN TIL In 1991 two hikers walking through the mountains bordering Italy and Switzerland found a body. Swiss Rangers found it was a 5000-year-old mummy now known as "Ötzi". He is considered the oldest fully complete human found yet.
XkE TIL there are seven naked ladies on the poster of Silence of the Lambs
awQb TIL that the supply of Plutonium-238, the fuel used to power Curiosity and other exploratory spacecraft, is nearly depleted and is no longer being produced by either the US or Russia.
awO5o TIL that wood can now be made stronger than steel and nearly as bulletproof as Kevlar (but at only 5% of the cost)!