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TIL That There Is A Statue In Russia That Honors All The Lab Mice That Have Sacrificed Their Life For Genetic Research

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0wlmR Today I Learned that Neil Armstrong was paid the 2021 equivalent of around $490 for the time he spent on the moon.
jNdmQ TIL: The 'world's blackest paint' is licensed exclusively to the artist Anish Kapoor. In retaliation Stuart Semple was incensed when Kapoor bought the exclusive rights – so he made what he says is a blacker one available for everyone besides Kapoor.
5ZED TIL someone got so fed up with being on the mailing list of a scientific journal, they wrote a study titled “Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List”. The paper was accepted.
xgBD TIL Charles Manson has spent only four years outside of prison since the age of 15.
JY11m TIL approximately 80000 Americans who were born in the last 50 years have contracted or will contract cancer as a result of American nuclear tests conducted in Nevada and the Pacific ocean. Soviet tests in Kazakhstan, eastern Russia. French tests in the Pacific and British tests at Christmas Island