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TIL that NASA has special wristwatches that keep Mars time for employees working with the rovers

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p6X4 TIL Electrons flow through a typical copper wire much slower than a turtle walks
a8MXo TIL that creator of Wonder Woman was in a thruple that involved his first wife and his student. They were heavily into bondage which inspired early iterations of the super heroine. Thruple lasted 22 years all the way to his death
e04pJ TIL that there are no remaining male mourning geckos and so to reproduce, females engage in foreplay like behaviour with each other and then produce eggs asexually.
78gkp TIL Genghis Khan’s empire would eventually become the largest contiguous land empire in history.
9EWp TIL South Korea, despite having completed the transistion to digital broadcast (ATSC) in 2012, still maintains analogue broadcast near its borders for North Koreans watching South Korean TV in secret.