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TIL that the first meal eaten on the moon was bacon, peaches, and grapefruit juice

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GYyPG TIL that During the 1990s, Raul Cano, a microbiologist at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, revived yeast trapped in amber for 25 million years. Cano went on to found a brewery and crafted an "amber ale" with a 45-million-year-old variant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
6ElOY TIL there was a sign language developed in the Rennell Island by a deaf person living there, that was only used by him and his acquaintances and disappeared when he died.
Ryg1 TIL Mormon Missionaries aren’t allowed to swim while they’re on mission
oRAko TIL there is no official "national identity card" in the United States. Most Americans use their driver’s license as a national identification.
ZE9B TIL that there is a form of synesthesia (a psychological condition that results in sensory ‘mixing’) called spacio-temporal synesthesia, in which people can perceive time as a spacial concept.