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TIL: Cornell University scientists have created a functioning guitar the size of a human blood cell.

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D1b5v TIL: After training together to fly the the Apollo-Soyuz docking mission between USA and USSR in 1975, American astronaut Thomas Stafford and Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov remained life long friends, and Leonov even became the godfather to Stafford's younger children.
OVV6 TIL that the balsamic vinegar in grocery stores is a pale imitation of the real deal: True balsamic vinegar can take over 25 years to make and can cost as much as $400 for a 100 ml bottle
wop5P TIL many coroners aren't doctors and they can be appointed or elected to their positions
j6RKQ TIL that the one-way speed of light is still undefined. All measurements of light speed are done using two-way (mirror) setups.
VbZ8 TIL New Jersey is home to more scientists and engineers per square mile than anywhere else in the world