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TIL the random parts added for effect in model making are called "Greeblies"

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loemK TIL when the Grand Canyon divided the local squirrel population, they evolved into two different species. Despite being separated only by the Colorado River and remaining extremely similar in appearance, they are now so genetically incompatible that they can no longer interbreed.
ADrow TIL - Jane Austen's brother was a war hero and both of her brothers were admirals.
0dNx5 TIL a Martian meteorite is a rock that formed on Mars, was ejected from the planet by an impact event, and traversed interplanetary space before landing on Earth as a meteorite. By September 2020, 277 meteorites had been classified as Martian, less than 0.5% of the 72,000 classified meteorites.
4XANJ TIL the term 'Toxic Masculinity' was first coined in the 1980's by the Jungian MythoPoetic Men's Movement, who believed that because most men no longer perform masculine rituals, men have mutated into destructive, hypermasculine chauvinists, or, in the opposite direction, have become too feminized.
W7yN9 TIL that almost 100,000 Vietnamese "volunteers" served on the western front during WW1