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TIL on a Planet with 2 Stars Vegetation Would Bloom Black
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TIL in 2023 a 16-month-old girl died from starvation & dehydration after her mom left her home alone in a playpen with only a few bottles of milk while she took a 10-day vacation to Puerto Rico & Detroit with a male friend. She was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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TIL In 2014, China's first astronaut Yang Liwei joined Buzz Aldrin at the International Planetary Congress to explore possibilities for expanding human spaceflight cooperation. The movie "Gravity" was part of a discussion on rescuing astronauts in peril between space stations
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TIL that a pregnant womans body contains more than twice the number of bones found in a normal healthy adult, because an unborn fetus has bones that haven't grown together yet.
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TIL passing high frequency sound waves through a liquid results in the formation of imploding microscopic bubbles that can be used to clean the inside of submerged objects in a process known as an ultrasonic bath
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TIL that not only did then-future Supreme Court Justices William Rehnquist & Sandra Day O'Connor date during their time at Stanford Law School, but he actually asked her to marry him as well. She turned down his proposal. 30 years later, however, they found themselves serving on the Court together.