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TIL that there is an organism that exists as a single celled organism when times are good, but under stress gathers together to form a slug, which climbs to a favorable spot and becomes a plant which launches spores which become single cells again.

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PYNNg TIL We broke the sound barrier before a man summited Mt. Everest. That's a speed exceeding 662 mph, at an altitude of 43,000 feet, in a ROCKET PLANE, four years before a man could climb to 29,029 feet, with the help of a Nepalese sherpa on his 39th birthday.
epBJb TIL The USS Indianapolis delivered the enriched uranium and parts for the "Little Boy" atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima, but no one onboard knew the contents of this cargo. The uranium was secretly monitored by a radiologist throughout the trip to make sure the sailors would not be poisoned.
graRD TIL that in 1976, when the NBA was merging with the ABA, Ozzie and Daniel Silna turned down an offer to sell their ABA team for $3.3 million. Instead, they negotiated a deal to receive a share of the NBA media rights in perpetuity. Through this deal they eventually earned about $800 million.
7ALx TIL that the Harry Patch was the last Tommy to survive the horror of the trenches of WWI. He died aged 111 in 2009. He never forgot those lost and always made sure to remember lost Germans as well as Allied troops.
M7y5b TIL the map of Juan de la Cosa, created around the year 1500, is the oldest known map to show America and was unknown until its discovery in 1832 by map enthusiast Charles Walckenaer in a Paris bookshop.