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TIL a cockroach named "Nadezhda" became the first terrestrial animal to give birth in space aboard the Russian Foton-M bio-satellite

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xVkNb TIL that brass and copper are used in door handles because they are slowly poisonous to many germs
0wpDj TIL when Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders made their famous charge up San Juan Heights, they were entirely on foot. The only one riding anything was Roosevelt. They'd left the horses in Florida.
A71d TIL that THC (the main agent in marijuana) is legal in pill form in all 50 states, called Marinol.
b9DOZ TIL, the kid's play arcade Discovery Zone merged it's assets with Leaps And Bounds in the year 1995, and also found out that Leaps and Bounds was a McDonald's subsidiary too.
KOaw TIL that during a siege in 1857, a mysterious Scottish soldier watched one his comrades get shot, and announced that he had joined the regiment simply to see that man die. He then ran into a breach singing Bible verses and trying unsuccessfully to get himself killed.