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TIL NASA engineers use Hawaiian lava fields to simulate conditions on Mars

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GAyy1 TIL about the origins of the term "Anti-Semitism"
4N1X TIL From 1995-2000 a man stole the pieces to the top winning prizes from McDonald’s Monopoly and gave them to associates which claimed and shared the prizes totaling over $24M. One year he sent the $1M piece to a Children’s Hospital, although against the rules, McDonald’s honored the prize.
V9MZ TIL that when a study was done on people who suffered from constant/chronic Déjà Vu, a man declined to take part because he felt like he had done it before
okKA TIL that a study published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy found no correlation between rates of gun ownership and rates of murder and suicide while in some regions, high rates of gun ownership negatively correlated with violent crime.
R79N9 TIL Neil Armstrong earned his Masters from USC in 1970 and presented a seminar on "Moon Landing Techniques"