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TIL Big Bird was supposed to be on the Challenger shuttle, but couldn't fit, and was replaced by Christa McAuliffe

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ANgyl TIL Naegleria fowleri (brain-eating amoeba) was first identified in Czechoslovakia in 1963 and caused the biggest epidemic so far killing 16 young people
wLpKE TIL about the Particle Data Group's Particle Listings, which is a list of the characteristics and details of more than 150 observed and proposed particles
8eaX8 TIL The smallest possible size for anything in the universe is the Planck Length, which is 1.6 x10-35 m across.
mxXLP TIL The Japanese command didn't realize Hiroshima had been totally destroyed until almost a whole day after it happened. Vague reports of some sort of large explosion had begun to filter in, but the Japanese high command knew that no large-scale air raid had taken place over the city.
M7Pe7 TIL - MPTP is a neuro toxic drug that completely destroys your dopamine receptors. Essentially giving you Parkinsons disease after one use.