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TIL China has Salamanders as large as Humans

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6emX TIL there is a garden in a bottle that has only been watered once and is still going strong 40 years later!A.K.A “self sustaining ecosystem”
awJ6N TIL the fact that Neil Armstrong was to be the first to walk on the moon was inadvertently decided by the LEM designers, who placed the inward swinging hatch's hinge on its right side. When opened, the hatch blocked the pilot seat and meant Aldrin could only leave after Armstrong exited the lander.
d8PvQ TIL of William Henry Johnson who was awarded the Medal of Honor in 2015 for fighting off a German raid in hand-to-hand combat, killing multiple German soldiers and rescuing a fellow soldier while experiencing 21 wounds on May 14, 1918.
wLrnJ TIL of a professional Scottish sport of haggis hurling that requires that the haggis be in one piece and edible after landing.
GAwJ4 TIL the emperor penguin is a very powerful bird. In one case, a crew of six men, trying to capture a single male penguin for a zoo collection, were repeatedly tossed around and knocked over before all of the men had to collectively tackle the bird, which weighs about half as much as a man.