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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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9XAp TIL that Google’s Artificial-Intelligence Bot says the purpose of living is ‘to live forever’
v1y0L TIL that the Stanford Prison Experiment, the infamous experiment that many psychological works reference, was actually mostly a fraud and that many of the participants were faking.
ADJYl TIL that the Australian constitution has has a subsection (called the Race Power) dedicated to allowing the legislative to make law only affecting a specific race of people.
xE9o TIL that 1.3 million pints of donated blood spoil every year since blood only has a 40 day shelf life.
D1LDr TIL that in 1998 the British soap Coronation Street debuted Hayley Patterson, who was the UK's first transgender soap character, and her storylines are given partial credit for the UK's 2004 Gender Recognition Act