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TIL NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has detected snow falling from Martian clouds.

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b9yOE TIL: Of the plight of actor Dudley Moore; amongst his most famous roles was that of the perpetually drunk "Arthur". His death was from a form of Parkinson's disease that in the early stages has a symptom of the sufferer appearing to be extremely intoxicated.
p8o5A Today I learned that Mel Gibson's father was a reactionary Catholic and antisemitic conspiracy theorist who was also the grand champion of Jeopardy! in 1968
bN4E TIL The concept of Combat Information Centers on warships was taken “specifically, consciously, and directly” from science fiction.
ANYkg TIL mIRC still exists and being updated, last one came out 2 months ago.
jxjN TIL that in a siege against a gallic city, Julius Caesar actually built a second wall around the city to keep its occupants from leaving.