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TIL Helen Sharman, the first British astronaut came from Mars. The Mars company that is. She replied to a radio advertisement in 1989 to get the space fairing job.

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a9AM TIL Of The Existence Of A Website Which Removes The Final Panel From Peanuts Comic Strips. “With The Last Panel Omitted, Despair Pervades All.”
XEDN8 TIL that after losing all four engines, the pilot of British Airways flight 9 calmly addressed the passengers, telling them "we have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress."
E1V8x TIL J.D. Thompson published a 90 minute documentary on Joe Exotic of G.W. Zoo in Wynnewood, Oklahoma in 2018. It's available for free on YouTube.
woxYo TIL there is a 1 in 2600 chance that Earth will be hit by a 1.3km asteroid in the year 2880. It would be devastating to human civilisation.