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TIL Tomatoes are one of the only crops that can not only grow, but thrive in Mars like soil.

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BbnK TIL Ellen and William Craft escaped slavery in the American south. Ellen could pass for white so she pretended to be a white male slave owner on a trip with her black slave William. They traveled first class all the way.
rRK40 TIL The earliest known life-forms on Earth are fossilised micro-organisms, found in hydrothermal vent precipitates (holes in the sea floor). They date to between 3.77 billion and 4.28 billion years ago.
J1PGj TIL about the “other 9/11”, the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, which was supported by the CIA.
8ldK TIL a full suit of plate armour weighs less than a modern fire fighters oxygen gear
4jWo TIL that the more intelligent you are, the more likely you are to make assumptions that aren’t based on facts and logical thinking.