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TIL of Robert H Lawrence Jr. a Major in the USAF, he was the first black man to be trained as an astronaut, however, he died in a plane crash during flight training and never made it to space.

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ep4oJ TIL we're banking cells of endangered animals so we can reintroduce them in case they go extinct when humanity learns to treat the planet better
oRY8K TIL Zak Brown, the current CEO of McLaren F1 racing, won $3,050 on Wheel of Fortune in 1984 as a teenager and spent it all on a go-kart.
XEanP TIL While filming the 2000 hit movie, Castaway, Tom Hanks received a cut and got a staph infection that nearly killed the Academy Award winning actor. The cut gave him blood poisoning, Hanks was in the hospital for 3 days and production of the movie was shut down for 3 weeks.
Brg1d TIL of the Oregon Vortex, where Gravity and Light don't play to the rules.
Y7mA7 TIL Australia has two venomous snakes that live above the snow line in the Australian Alps. The White-lipped snake and Alpine copperhead. The Alpine copperhead is capable of inflicting fatal bites. In 2015 a man was bitten in the Kosciusko National Park in winter and airlifted to hospital.