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TIL In 2008 the mars lander disobeyed orders and protected itself.

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8eG8a TIL that the Brazilian jumping spiders bite can cause severe pain, problems with the heart and breathing but also a penile erection that lasts for several hours, and in some cases death.
Y7aRr TIL during Prohibition in the United States President Warren G. Harding would host whiskey-fueled poker games in the White House with a group he referred to as his "Poker Cabinet."
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