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TIL that the last Shuttle flight STS-134 was delayed after an engineer committed suicide by throwing himself off the launch pad.

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OGxER TIL that in 1981, the magazine Locus butchered the title of Gene Wolfe's next novel "The Citadel of the Autarch" and announced that it would be titled "The Castle of the Otter". Wolfe found the mistake so funny he actually published a book titled "The Castle of the Otter" the following year.
dYmB TIL the Bororo are one of the few groups of people who all have the same blood type. They all have type O blood.
v9k8 TIL: Seeds buried in the ground by a squirrel in Siberia 32,000 years are the oldest plant ever to be regenerated
1aA17 TIL The 2020 Olympic Games will take place in Tokyo, Japan, as predicted in the manga "Akira" released in 1982.
XdAk TIL Donald Glover was voted “Most Likely to Write for The Simpsons” in high school. In his last year of college, it was a spec script he wrote for The Simpsons that started his career as a writer for 30 Rock.