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TIL that Mars soil can create fluorocarbons, a greenhouse gas. This can be used to heat the cold planet up, one of the first steps of terraforming.

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9YJAD TIL - Companies can be affected by the names of other organizations and it is called Damaging Doppelgangers.
lop7A TIL Scientists have found that people who abstain from alcohol are also more likely to lack social skills, have higher levels of anxiety and have more mental health issues than those considered heavy drinkers.
o5xo TIL that during WWII, Joan Pujol Garcia, a double agent that spied on Germany for the British, was supposed to recruit spies in Britain for the Germans. He made up so many fake spy names that Germany decided they had enough “agents” spying for them in Britain, and didn’t want anymore.
8aRj8 TIL, the unconfirmed record for fastest moving manmade object is a manhole cover propelled by a nuclear detonation. A high-speed camera trained on the lid caught only one frame of it moving upward before it vanished—which means it was moving about 125,000 miles per hour
Ypxpr TIL: Texas bankruptcy laws allows you to keep 2 guns.