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TIL A goat in Utah was implanted with spider genes as an embryo to produce spider silk proteins in her milk which is used to make “bio-steel”, a material which is stronger than Kevlar.

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m1j0Y TIL General Mills founded Olive Garden and once owned toy brand Parker Brothers and clothing brands Eddie Bauer and Talbots
epyy5 TIL that adult tigers only have 30 teeth, 16 teeth in the top jaw and only 14 in the lower jaw.
yQDrJ TIL that while American mathematician David Blackwell was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, he was prevented from attending lectures at Princeton University because of his race. In 1965 was the first African American named to the National Academy of Sciences.
1aB1X TIL that the US military used to keep planes loaded with nuclear bombs in the air at all times; in 1961, the plane failed, dropping the bombs in North Carolina, though they did not detonate. This was only made public in 2013.
YRmG TIL an heir to a $300 million fortune was found homeless and frozen to death under a bridge before he could be given his share