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TIL two tools aboard both the Spirit and Opportunity rovers, designed to grind rocks for examination, are made of recycled aluminum from the World Trade Center, recovered after 9/11. Honeybee Robotics, whom constructed the tools, were located in Lower Manhattan, just a mile away from ground zero.

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mBZp TIL author Christopher Hitchens was called to the Vatican to give evidence against Mother Teresa’s beatification. He said, “It was by talking to her that I discovered, and she assured me, that she wasn’t working to alleviate poverty. She was working to expand the number of Catholics.”
gMr4X TIL the Chancellor of UC Davis was fired after giving her family jobs with unusual pay hikes. She was later rehired at UC Davis at nearly the same pay rate, with her new job requiring that she teach only ONE class per quarter!
nY0G TIL The so called GTA gang killed 17 motorists between 2013 and 2014. It operated by stopping random cars at night on Moscow highways and then shooting dead its passengers at point-blank range for no apparent reason.
xVOgb TIL Levi's CEO claimed you don't need to wash jeans, he hasn't washed his in more than a year!
aEPL TIL In crime-infested Ciudad Juarez Mexico a city bordering Texas. A forensic expert Alejandro Hernandez uses a secret technique that he created, to rehydrate murdered mummified bodies making it easier to identify fingerprints and facial features from victims left to rot in the desert.