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68a8 TIL the Luna moth does not have a mouth and cannot eat. It will live only for about one week, with the singular purpose of mating!
p8QBA TIL as of 2020, there have been 15 astronaut and 4 cosmonaut fatalities during spaceflight. The current statistical fatality rate is 3.2 percent.
p8Pj4 TIL that in order to receive compensation from the original September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, the recipients had to agree not to sue the airlines whose planes were hijacked in the attacks.
Z8OLQ TIL that H G Wells’ War of the Worlds was inspired by how the immeasurably technologically superior English massacred the natives of Tasmania, Australia in taking that land.
MMlK TIL- Seth MacFarlane was a writer for Dexter’s Laboratory and Johnny Bravo