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TIL Rolex strapped a watch onto the robotic arm of a submarine as it dove to the deepest point in the ocean and the watch functioned throughout the whole trip

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KO9n9 TIL that thanks to 3D printing, NASA can basically “email” tools to astronauts
VBQA0 TIL Sonja Farsi and Annie Dookhan, two Massachusetts lab technicians were responsible for handing pver 70,000 cases and around 15,000 false convictions by tampering with and intentionally falsifying drug evidence
d86YB Moss is the gold standard among natural toilet papers.
K4p6 TIL One of the last verifiable surviving veterans of the American Revolutionary War was Lemuel Cook, who died in 1866 at 105. He lived long enough to see the end of the Civil War.
xVaYD TIL actor Michael Keaton got his start in show business as a production assistant on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. He helped with the puppets and ran the trolley.