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

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rY8d TIL Chris Tucker is broke and owes the IRS 11.5 million dollars. He also refuses to appear in the last “Friday” movie.
nWx5P TIL of Columbia, the personification of the United States for over 200 years, and was even the alternate name for the United States. She is the reason for the District of Columbia, British Columbia, etc. She was replaced by Lady Liberty, and was gradually forgotten after WWI.
R7JY4 TIL that Dolly Parton, as a child slept in a urine soaked bed with several siblings, going on to add in this 1986 interview: “I’ve been aware of sex all my life. I enjoy sex, yeah all my life. Well I mean I got six brothers and cousins and you know all the sisters, kids are curious”
YYZW TIL A German pilot accidentally landed in Wales instead of France during WW2, was taken prisoner, then almost got shot by his guard in transport when the car hit a pothole
yQ0yv TIL of the rank of six-star general, which in USA has awarded only to two living people, and posthumously in 1976 to George Washington.