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TIL Canada is part of the European Space Agency

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86wV TIL NASA intoxicated spiders with different drugs to see if they could still build an effective web. All of the drugs reduced web regularity except for small doses of LSD, which actually increased it.
e0LBn TIL of Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, Icelandic explorer, who sailed to America around 1000ad. She was the first European to give birth there. She also sailed across North Atlantic eight times between Greenland, Iceland and Norway. Later in her life she made a pilgrimage to Rome and back.
J1J64 TIL that elephants use a unique inner ear structure, and behavioral adaptations, to feel and respond to vibrations through the earth from other elephants kilometers away (called seismics).
NamM TIL “hocus pocus” may have been coined by Protestants to mock the Catholic transubstantiation incantation used to turn bread and wine into flesh and blood, “hoc est corpus.”
oRv5W TIL Steve Jobs bought multiple houses across the country to increase his chances of receiving organ donation.