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TIL that NASA has begun work on a 3-D printer for the space station can can replicate food. It would be in essence, the replicator from Star Trek.

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MM40 TIL The Albuquerque Isotopes minor league baseball team was actually named after the baseball team in The Simpsons
YpMkd TIL That drinking pure water with no minerals or impurities is dangerous and can actually kill you.
6EXMX TIL when actor Raymond Massey was divorced from wife Adrianne Allen they used, respectively, husband and wife divorce lawyers Dorothy Whitney and William Dwight Whitney. Raymond then married his lawyer Dorothy and Adrianne married her lawyer William
kOawe TIL sharks enter a trance-like state known as tonic immobility when turned upside down. A female orca off the coast of California was observed rolling a Great White over to induce this state and was one of the first cases of predation on a Great White in the wild by anything other than a human.
Re46 TIL that there are 22 different beef cuts in the US, 35 in England and France, and 120 in Korea.