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TIL NASA is under presidential orders to land humans on Mars by 2033, and NASA-funded engineers are studying a way to build potential human habitats there by producing bricks from pressurized Martian soil.

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9w4PD TIL That prisoners in Japan who are sentenced to death only find out on the morning of their execution. The prisoner's family and legal representatives, and also the general public, are informed only after the execution has taken place.
R5xjw TIL Giancarlo Esposito Was So Broke Before ‘Breaking Bad’ That He Considered Arranging His Own Murder So His Kids Could Get His Life Insurance Money
Oo76e TIL of Gunner, a stray Australian dog who, after being wounded in a WW2 air raid, could distinguish so accurately between the sounds of Allied and Japanese planes that he could give 20 mins warning before an air attack. He was taken in by the RAAF and given a role detecting air attacks on Darwin.
e0QJb TIL The $10,000 bill featuring the portrait of Secretary of the Treasury, Salmon P. Chase, was the highest denomination US currency ever to publicly circulate. A $100,000 bill featuring the portrait of Woodrow Wilson was issued, its purpose was to transfer funds between Federal Reserve Banks.
wLAr8 TIL During the terrifying cholera epidemic of 1835–1836, the island of Sardinia was the only Italian region to escape cholera, thanks to surveillance by armed men who had orders to prevent, by force, any ship that attempted to disembark persons or cargo on the coast