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TIL That The Royal Guardsmen, the band that sang “Snoopy vs. The Red Baron”, released a similar song, “Snoopy vs. Osama” in 2006.

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gkjD TIL that there is an autonomous robot patrolling the Great Barrier Reef, finding destructive starfish and killing them by injecting them with poison
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kOJd4 In a roundabout way, yes. But first we must heat that atmosphere, since the surface of Mars is about –58°F. “We know how to warm planets; we’re doing it right now,” says Robert Zubrin, the president of the nonprofit Mars Society, a group devoted to Martian exploration.