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TIL Rover Curiosity has been on Mars for 8 yrs [2012-2020] and still performing it's mission of studying the climate, geology, life support capacity & other task assigned by Mars Exploration Program (MEP)..

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x6ywo TIL that there’s a specific name for the “BA ba-ba-ba BA ba-ba-ba” rhythm widely found in reggaeton music: the dembow beat
GAZBj TIL that Josh Peck's birth was the result of an extramarital affair, with his father being a married co-worker of his mother.
Lk4bv TIL that about a quarter of women in the desert nation of Mauritania are obese because of a beauty standard that finds overweight women attractive. Slim women are viewed as sickly and in some rural areas young girls are force fed to make them look more desirable to men.
e0XM4 TIL Breyer’s can no longer call their product “Ice cream” because of the number of additives and the low amount of milk and cream. It is a “Frozen Dairy Dessert” or “Frozen Dessert”
05Dv TIL that Argentina has almost 1m people of Irish decent and Che Guevara came from an Irish family.