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TIL our memories can be changed or even made up by suggestive information, which makes eyewitness accounts less trustworthy.

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XEe0j TIL that there are over 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe and that up until 1924, the common knowledge was that the milky way was itself the whole universe
9Y5LG TIL that American and Russian astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) have different water supplies. Its because the Americans drink recycled urine while the Russians refuse to do so. The NASA astronauts even collect the Russians urine to increase their own supply...
j67dQ TIL that Stepan Company is the only business in the United States legally authorized by the DEA to import coca leaves, and Coca-Cola is the sole company permitted to purchase and use them in its products.”
e0Ga6 TIL Grant & Lee met again in 1869, 4 years after the American Civil War at the White House when Grant was President of the U.S. and Lee president of Washington University. Grant cracked a joke at Lee about railroads but Lee refused to smile. Their meeting was brief, lasting 15 minutes.
j6xpn TIL There is a US electric freight railroad in Mason City, Iowa. It operates Baldwin-Westinghouse Steeplecab electric locomotives built in the 1920s, over 100 years ago