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4Xp1N TIL that Nasa is working on a 'clockwork rover' without electronics to explore the surface of Venus
0d0Jp TIL that before his involvment in the Nazi Party, Adolf Hitler was extremely lazy, never had a real job, dropped out of school and was very poor for many years. At one point he was sleeping on park benches and begging for money and later lived at a home for poor men for a few years.
R7J9l TIL tempura (a Japanese deep-fried method) was actually a Portuguese recipe from the 1600s, adopted into Japanese culture during Portugal's assimilation into Nagasaki. 'Tempero', being Portuguese for 'seasoning'.
v1Vx4 TIL that in 1956, pilot Thomas Fitzpatrick lost a bet at a bar in Manhattan, he successfully stole a plane from the airport and landed it on the street in front of the bar. He did it again 2 years later when someone refused to believe he had done it.
ADYKx TIL pine trees scatter their needles across the forest floor to make it easier for fires to burn all of the other trees - pine is fire resistant so it survives.