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TIL all snakes can swim

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e0wBk TIL that while pregnant, Gene Tierney contracted German measles from a fan who had escaped quarantine to meet her. Her baby was born deaf and intellectually disabled as a result, inspiring the Agatha Christie book The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
gXbW TIL that a hypersonic vehicle exists that demonstrated a stable aerodynamically-controlled flight at speeds of up to Mach 20.
NAV6 TIL that there is an environmental movement that wants humans to voluntarily stop reproducing until we go extinct. Their slogan is “May we live long and die out”
OGLOg TIL in 2004, The Dave Matthews Band bus on tour dumped 800 pounds of human waste over 120 passengers when they were crossing a river under a bridge
R59ma TIL that the CIA's Directorate of Science & Technology created the lithium-ion battery in the mid 1960s and declassified it for public sector use