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

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JGmv TIL a framed photo of a 4chan post sold for $90,900 on Ebay. The post read: “Art used to be something to cherish / Now literally anything could be art/This post is art”
rRKlw TIL that in 1958, Bank of America mass mailed 60,000 unsolicited credit cards, with a credit line of $500, to residents of Fresno, California. They chose Fresno so that if the plan failed, it wouldn’t get much media coverage. The program was wildly successful and marked the birth of Visa.
y4dw TIL that Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron) was killed by a shot from the ground, rather than Captain Arthur “Roy” Brown, who was credited for the kill.
NE4P TIL Anthropologists believe cats approached humans on their own terms 12,000 years ago. The first agricultural societies stored food that attracted mice, the cats decreased the rodent population by eating them, and a mutual relationship began.
oBar7 TIL that there are support houses in Tijuana and Mexico for the U.S. veterans who have been deported. One such support house has tracked at least of 400 deported veterans