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

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Br8GK TIL that Chadwick(the discoverer of the neutron) was a student of Rutherford(the discoverer of the proton) who was student of Thomson (the discoverer of the electron).
QxvE TIL that Willie Nelson will be receiving his 5th Degree Black Belt in the art of Gong Kwon Yu Sul, a modern Korean martial arts system.
46bJ TIL a statue of a Roman emperor in Britain was vandalized in 2003 with (grammatically correct) Latin
Ox74 TIL Marlon Brando was in an acting class that was told to act like chickens and that a nuclear bomb was about to fall on them. Most of the class clucked wildly, but Brando sat calmly and pretended to lay an egg. When Stella Adler asked why he said, “I’m a chicken, What do I know about bombs?”
R7X17 TIL Jain tirthankara(spiritual teacher) Neminatha became a monk because he heard the cries of animals being killed for his marriage feast. He left his marriage and freed the animals.