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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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OG86e TIL Female giant pandas would spontaneously terminate their pregnancy when they are inseminated by a panda of the opposite sex they do not like
p7Jb TIL Mr Snuffleupagus was revealed to the adults on Sesame Street in 1985. The writers wanted children to have confidence that adults would believe them, making children less likely to hide sexual assaults.
LkmX9 TIL Babylonians believed that eclipses were the gods’ way of expressing anger, if the moon appeared in front of the sun, they would literally murder their king. In order to escape this, the king would crown a puppet king and queen days before the eclipse, and kill them instead.
xQ97 TIL there is a 240 square kilometer zone many believe to be the site of Genghis Khan’s grave that was guarded from Khan’s death in 1227 until 1991. Khan’s tomb has still not been found.
Vn0G TIL, originally, the term ‘masterpiece’ referred to a piece of work produced by an apprentice or journeyman aspiring to become a master craftsman in the old European guild system.