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TIL NASA’s Curiosity Rover Leaves Tracks in Morse Code

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E1yx7 TIL that a type face that leans to the right is Italic. If it leans to the left, it's Iranic.
pYOWQ Today I learned that 1 billion people in the world suffer from sleep disordered breathing.
6E8WZ TIL that a bakers dozen is comprised of 13 because in medieval England there were laws that related the price of bread to the price of the wheat used to make it. Bakers caught cheating customers by overpricing undersized loaves were punished. For fear of coming up short, they would throw in extra.
E1QXW TIL that Benedict Cumberbatch voiced Dormammu in Doctor Strange. Cumberbatch himself suggested the idea and the director, Scott Derrickson, agreed to it because "[he] wrote that role to be a kind of ultra-inflated version of Strange."
M7mEV TIL in 2014 a man who survived a motorcycle accident left his doctors shocked when they found his heart had turned 90 degrees to the right & was no longer on his left side. His injuries caused a buildup of air pressure in his chest & once it was removed his heart returned to its original position.