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TIL - Sixty Years Ago, NASA Scientists Found That Women Would Be Better Astronauts. Their Work Was Never Published.

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9wVw7 TIL Blue Bunny ice cream was named in a 1935 contest. The winner noted how much his little boy enjoyed seeing blue bunnies in a department store window at Easter and thought it made a fun name. He won $25 (today's equivalent, $560).
pY5ae TIL the Kitti's hog-nosed bat aka bumblebee bat is the world’s smallest mammal by body length 29-33mm(1.1-1.3”)
aMl9 TIL Both sharks and vaginas have a natural lubricant called squalene
PYwmg TIL of Paul Chartier, a Canadian man who attempted to bomb the Canadian House of Commons in 1966. Unfortunately (for him) the clerk who sold him the Dynamite misremembered the burn time of the fuse, resulting in the bomb prematurely exploding in a bathroom and killing him before he could use it.
GWV4 TIL that a lady had a stroke and lost movement in her left arm because of a hickey.