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TIL that Mars’ smallest moon, Deimos, has an escape velocity of 5.2M/S, meaning that if you were take a running jump while on it, you will launch off like a slow rocket.

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4X8GX TIL in 2003 there was a tv show called “There’s something about Miriam” that featured six men wooing 21-year-old Mexican model Miriam without revealing that she was a pre-operative trans woman until the final episode.
dv8E TIL basketball legend Tim Duncan was a teenage champion swimmer in the Virgin Islands. When Hurricane Hugo destroyed the island’s only Olympic-sized swimming pool in 1989, Duncan was forced to swim in the ocean and he quickly lost his enthusiasm for swimming because of his fear of sharks
rNlve TIL About Friendship Heights Village, Maryland, it has the highest density population of any city, town, or census designated place in the United States. At 90,848 people per square mile, it is over 3 times more densely populated than New York City.
BjpW TIL hog-morse happened when rookie telegraph users made timing errors. One alleged case concerns the similarity of “L” and “T”. A customer sent a request for “undressed staves (wood)” to a Virginia firm. Due to hog-morse, “slaves” was sent instead. The firm reminded the sender that slavery was over.
Q6LL TIL that Harold Gillies is considered to be the father of plastic surgery; after the first world war he performed thousands of surgeries mostly for soldiers with facial injuries, usually from gunshot wounds