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TIL scientists accidentally killed world’s oldest animal at age 507

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ovxY TIL that Samuel Morse was a renowned painter before inventing the telegraph, and only did so because he couldn’t get back to his dying wife in time to say goodbyes
Z5Jo TIL Hallucinatory ‘voices’ shaped by local culture. In the U.S.A., voices are harsh and threatening while those heard by schizophrenics in Africa and India tend to be more benign and playful.
xVjrg TIL There is a functioning mail box located 10m underwater off the coast of Japan, that receives hundreds of mail items every day.
QrxX TIL that NASA no longer has the original recording of the moon landing because it has been recorded over and reused. NASA admitted it back in 2006
Z8GZG TIL I learned that, adjusted for inflation, the entire US Apollo Lunar program only cost $288 billion over its lifetime