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TIL: Spirit Rover got a significant extension to its mission on Mars when it's solar panels were scrubbed of dust by a passing dust devil in 2005.

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XD4P TIL Bill W, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, took LSD after being sober for decades and “developed a plan to have LSD distributed at all AA meetings nationwide”
Eg18d TIL the movie Saw (2004) was shot in just 18 days with a budget under a million dollars, and grossed more than $100 million at the box office.
7EBb TIL that during the filming of “Predator” in 1987 the studio’s insurance company would not agree to insure the production unless a body guard was hired to follow Sonny Landham (Billy) around. The body guard’s sole purpose was not to protect Sonny, but to protect other people from Sonny.
dgRZ TIL Sarah Chalke wore her labcoat from ‘Scrubs’ when she played in 'How I Met Your Mother’ and used pens to cover up her name
aw0My TIL in 1926, the US Federal government poisoned alcohol in a effort to end alcohol consumption during Prohibition. By the end of Prohibition, 10,000 Americans died due to alcohol poisoning.