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TIL Mars sometimes hums. Scientists aren't sure why.

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oRk4Y TIL Red Delicious apples, now widely regarded as the worst variety of apples, used to actually be both red and delicious. Growers were paid based on an apple's color and level of bruising, so Red Delicious was artificially selected for tougher, redder skin, at the sacrifice of taste and texture.
R7VRl TIL that modern humans and neanderthals interbred, and as a result, all non-Africans carry between one and four percent Neanderthal DNA.
0w85R TIL That the Scatman from the popular song from the 90's had a really severe stutter and that he discovered scat/piano to cope with his impediment, causing him to be a pop star at the age of 53.
epdyJ TIL Sylvester Stallone didn't just star in 'Rocky,' he also wrote the script and choreographed its boxing scenes.
OGV1R TIL Fritz Haber invented Haber-process to produce ammonia by using nitrogen from the air, but also invented poison gas in World War I that led his wife to suicide...