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TIL On Space Shuttle Endeavor, astronaut John Grunsfeld called into NPR’s Car Talk and asked why his government vehicle was shaking violently for a couple minutes before the engine died.

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jNZpM TIL bees will seek out alcohol and get drunk--and "bouncers" at the hive refuse to let them in until they sober up
b6vYZ TIL that hurricanes cannot form within 300 miles of the equator, due to a lack of the Coriolis effect, which causes winds to curve to the right, in the Northern Hemisphere, and to the left, in the Southern Hemisphere, because of the Earth’s rotation.
Nrl6 TIL Russia secretly had maps so detailed of the Canadian Arctic during the Cold-War that other ships now use them over official maps.
pYn74 TIL that the world's largest frying pan is in Rose Hill, North Carolina, and can cook 365 chickens at once!
oBvPA TIL NASA developed a form of concrete that doesn't need water, to be used as a construction material on the Moon