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TIL that Walmart hasn’t paid A $7,000 fine for the 2008 Black Friday trampling death

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GAv8G TIL sci fi author Jack Williamson coined the terms terraforming (1942), psionics (1952), and was one of the first people to use the term genetic engineering.
Lk800 TIL Dax Cowart was injured in a propane gas explosion, burning his entire body except the soles of his feet, suffering hearing loss, and the loss of his hands and eyes. He went on to earn a law degree, advocating for patients right to die.
QJpJL TIL a 1998 space simulation experiment put 7 men and a woman in a replica of the space station Mir for several months. After 110 days, the drunken space commander had assaulted the female researcher, threatened to murder another, and one participant fled the experiment early.
epVXg TIL tagging content on social media (I.e. hashtags) falls into a classification system called Folksonomy.
7mr TIL on July 4, 1054, A supernova was seen by Chinese, Arab, and possibly Amerindian observers near the star Zeta Tauri. For several months it remains bright enough to be seen during the day. Its remnants form the Crab Nebula.