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

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JYG68 TIL Ajay V. Bhatt, an Indian-born American computer architect who led the Intel team that invented the USB (Universal Serial Bus), regrets not making it reversible. It would have doubled the cost, which was a hard sell at the time, "[b]ut in hindsight, we blew it." He holds 132 patents and counting.
nekRd TIL that in the Caucasus nation of Georgia has a large amount of people who support the restoration of their monarchy.
N6gE TIL in 1950 Milton Berle risked his newfound TV stardom at its zenith to challenge Texaco when the sponsor tried to prevent black performers from appearing on his show.
KO40w TIL citizens of the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and Palau may enter, reside, study, and work in the United States indefinitely without a visa.
0AQ1 TIL that students are paid $1500 a month to study in the most prestigious engineering school in France : École Polytechnique