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TIL NASA plans to grow plants on the moon next year.

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xrko TIL that Fallout’s “Fat Man” actually existed in real life. In the 1950’s, the US developed the Davy Crockett launcher that would fire essentially a mini-nuke with a 10 or 20 ton yield.
wLL1E Don't worry, you'll have time to post your goodbye selfies to Facebook.
neYVP TIL about Lepersonnite, an extremely rare rare earth mineral only found in Shinkolobwe deposit in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is the only mineral in which the chemical element Gadolinium, otherwise too reactive to exist, is found in nature. 400 tonnes of Gadolinium are produced yearly.
yQGjw TIL that people used to gather around paintings at well-to-do parties identifying hard-to-spot things for fun, a game that was essentially I Spy but for the wealthy and educated.
ANaJg TIL that when epidemiologist Tamara Safonova and virologist Alexandra Sheboldaeva discovered Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus in 1937, they were accused of spreading the virus themselves and sentenced to 18 years in Soviet labor camps.