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TIL NASA injected mice with moon dust from the apollo missions, including other species.

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M71ZB TIL that in 1957, Congress voted to de-authorize Fossil Cycad National Monument in South Dakota because the site became devoid of fossils due to pillaging and they were no longer able to justify it's existence as a unit of the NPS.
WkRGA TIL there is a small village in Switzerland called "Chäs und Brot" (Cheese and Bread) . It's got its name in 1339, after Bernese troops ate cheese and bread there the evening before the battle of Laupen. The next day, they won decisively against the Burgundian army.
8l6a TIL before Skyfall, James Bond had killed 352 people
gYM9 TIL according to Jainism, time runs on a cosmic wheel with 6 eras. We’re currently in the 5th, a time of sorrow, little happiness, averaging 6 ft tall and a via http://ift.tt/1ZDAs7N
5Yk7r TIL John Steinbeck, author of such classics as Of Mice and Men, once wrote a werewolf murder mystery novel titled, Murder at Full Moon. It was never published.