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TIL NASA’s Curiosity Rover Leaves Tracks in Morse Code

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vwO4 TIL in 2007 a Doberman Pinscher named Khan saved a baby girl from a deadly King Brown snake attack. At first the dog tried nudging the baby from danger. As the snake was about to strike, Khan grabbed the girl by the diaper, flung her to safety and took a venomous bite to the paw himself.
a87vb TIL the Passemant astronomical clock in Versailles has shown the correct date, time, moon phase, planetary alignment, etc (accounting for leap years ) from 1750 and can display through 9999.
kyYg TIL Gregg Allman dodged fighting in Vietnam by studying a foot chart, getting drunk, drawing a target on his moccasin, and blasting a hole in his foot with a revolver. His aim was perfect.
nAKY TIL instead of donating money, Toyota helped the NY Food Bank by increasing efficiency, cutting line wait times from 90 to 18 minutes.
woVpM TIL the phrase "zig-a-zig ah" from the hit song "Wannabe" by Spice Girls comes from "shit and cigars," a nickname given to a man in their recording studio that disliked the Spice Girls and had a habit of taking dumps while smoking cigars in their shared bathroom.