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

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ao0M TIL of the Pyrenean ibex. The first animal to be cloned out of extinction. It subsequently became the first animal to go extinct twice!
1e8W TIL that in 2001, hundreds of thousands of people across the world listed their religion on censuses as “Jedi”, a movement so big that it overtook major established religions, becoming the second most popular religion in New Zealand and surpassing the 400,000 people mark in the UK.
Myv7 TIL Coca-Cola was originally marketed for whites, while Pepsi was marketed for blacks
nWK9P TIL that according to a survey of schoolchildren (6-18 years of age), 86% did not know what a pager was, 71% couldn't identify an overhead projector, and 67% could said they had no idea what a floppy disk was.
JGpQ TIL that while the real “Santa Claus” may have been from Turkey, Father Christmas is actually a version of Odin, and the eight reindeer pulling the sleigh represent the eight legs of Sleipnir, Odin’s horse.