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TIL that the first animals in space are actually Fruit Flies

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BrgVr It’s happened before. In 1982, Angela Cavallo lifted a 1964 Chevy Impala off her teenage son, Tony, who was working on the car’s suspension when the jacks failed and the car fell on him.
Ax6d TIL the film Dick Tracy used a palette limited to just seven colors, primarily red, green, blue and yellow—to evoke the film’s comic strip origins; furthermore each of the colors was to be exactly the same shade.
rN791 TIL in the U.S., women didn’t have the right to open their own bank account until 1974
kODm1 TIL that more than 50% of the oxygen produced on earth is from photosynthesizers in the ocean, such as Prochlorococcus and phytoplankton.
wDWW TIL that grunting in tennis is punishable by losing a point to the opponent. This is because some player’s grunts, like Maria Sharapova’s, whose grunt is nearly equal to that of a lion’s roar, can affect how the opponent returns the ball.