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TIL a NASA scientist invented the Super Soaker

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KOej4 TIL Bacteria are thriving in the sky — and they influence the weather
WkxG9 TIL that honeybees can identify male drones born of incest and will eat them alive once they hatch
Nl5N TIL that David Barrett, an aeronautics engineer who resigned abruptly after seeing a vision of Jesus, spent 40 years single-handedly compiling the first and only complete list of Earth’s 10,000 existing religions and 33,830 denominations of Christianity. This led him to all 238 countries on Earth.
v1OkK TIL ‘Spirit In The Sky’ was written in fifteen minutes after Jewish-raised Norman Greenbaum saw a host sing a gospel song on TV. He said, “Yeah, I could do that.”
X0Ejj TIL That there was a plot to kill or kidnap George Washington early in the Revolutionary War - the traitors were from Washington's Life Guards, similar to today's Secret Service. One of the traitors was the first person to be put to death for treason, Thomas Hickey, in front of 20,000 people.