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TIL that President John Adams had a dog named Satan

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dvvK TIL that finding evidence of even microbial life on Mars could be very bad news for humanity. One of the most popular solutions to The Fermi Paradox is that there exists a “Great Filter” for life. Finding evidence of life elsewhere would mean the the filter is most likely still ahead of us.
4k9Yw TIL: There are 53 "Thankful" villages in the UK where all their members of the armed forces survived WW1. There are 14 which are "Doubly Thankful" having also lost no-one in WW2.
10VW TIL: Joshua Slocum, the first man to sail single-handedly around the world, never learned to swim and considered it “useless”
0dpEy TIL about Ken Warby, the fastest man on water. He set the speed record in his homemade, wood boat in 1978 at 317.6mph (551.1 km/h), a record that still stands today.
VMjL0 TIL Canada will keep a foreigner's fingerprints for 15 years on attempting to enter the country, or until the applicant is 100 should they be refused entry on criminal grounds.