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TIL: How NASA will land Perseverance rover on MARS using Sky Crane technology (Animation)

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1da8 TIL that in Japan they have an expression to describe the sudden urge to poop when you’re in a book store
Y7kwZ TIL in 1906, an irrigation company rerouted the Rio Grande, pushing the US town Rio Rico south of the river, causing it to be mistaken as Mexican. In 1972, the United States learned the land was US soil and officially ceded it to Mexico, allowing the local-born residents American citizenship.
b91DN TIL that parts from Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 were recovered from the Everglades and used in other EAL planes, after which the airline's employees started to report ghost sightings of Flight 401's pilots in those planes, which ceased when the cannibalised parts were removed
OG9Qg TIL the movie “30 Minutes Or Less” was ‘unintentionally’ based off a true story about the death of Pennsylvanian pizza delivery driver Brian Wells.
rRLQW TIL: There are wild hamsters