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TIL of the PUPPERS Act, which protects dogs from inhumane experimentation.

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wLROM TIL when SkyLab disintegrated over a West Australian town, NASA received a $400 ticket for littering from the rural town that received the debris. A radio DJ raised the funds to pay the ticket in the 90s.
grmkX TIL a bear was the first living being to survive a supersonic ejection
ADdno TIL Figs are only possible because of fig wasps. Females enter a fig, to lay her eggs and pollinate the fruit. She dies, her eggs hatch, the male mates with the female hatchlings and chew escape holes for females to leave and lay her eggs in another fig. Too tired, the males die in the fig as well.
LyPm TIL with evidence suggesting habitation since 8000 BCE Byblos, Lebanon is considered the longest continuously inhabited city on the world.
6EoJJ TIL renowned movie critic Roger Ebert briefly dated Oprah Winfrey