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TIL a Martian meteorite is a rock that formed on Mars, was ejected from the planet by an impact event, and traversed interplanetary space before landing on Earth as a meteorite. By September 2020, 277 meteorites had been classified as Martian, less than 0.5% of the 72,000 classified meteorites.

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e4JE TIL “Suicide is Painless” is the M.A.S.H theme song, with words, written by the movie director’s 14 year old son, and that he has earned more than 1 million dollars while his dad only made 70K total.
RRa6 TIL that in 1914 Ford doubled workers’ wages voluntarily to reduce employee turnover and improve productivity.
mx5aE TIL that McDonald's Filet-O-Fish was created in 1962 for Catholics abstaining from meat on Fridays during Lent. According to McDonald's, a quarter of all its Filet-O-Fish sandwiches were sold during Lent last year.
mxQKE TIL that if a diesel engine can draw fuel from an unintended source, like excess combustible gas that is in the air, it will have a runaway and experience overspeeding at RPMs of up to 10X the engines rated capacity.
nO5d TIL: “Go fever” is a term used by NASA to describe a few of their major disasters (Apollo 1/Challenger/Columbia). It describes a culture that develops when costs have mounted, and dissent is suppressed or ignored (due to group members not wanting to be seen as committed to the team’s progress).