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TIL that cicada's wings have an anti-bacterial surface that kills bacteria not by chemicals, but by using a nanopattern made of nano pillars that shreds the bacterial membrane.

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PDWZ TIL North Carolina’s copy of the Bill of Rights, stolen by a Union soldier in 1865, was recovered by an FBI sting operation in 2003
PB0g TIL: Martin Luther King Jr, convinced Nichelle Nichols to stay in her role on Star Trek because of the inspiration she had become to many other people
LkRP9 TIL in 1984 Thomas Cavanaugh, an aerospace engineer. Was sentenced to life in prison for stealing classified documents about the B-2 stealth bomber and trying to sell them to the Soviet Union for only $25,000.
4RWw TIL Time Warner, one of the world’s largest media companies, is paid a licensing fee for every Guy Fawkes mask sold
0OV5 TIL that the pacemaker, fridges, WiFi and Google Maps are all Australian inventions.