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TIL We Already Have Martian Rocks (Probably)

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neKYG TIL the word Geek was originally an early 20th-century term for a carnival worker who was so unskilled that the only thing they could do at a carnival to attract a crowd was to bite off the heads of live animals such as chickens, snakes and rats and swallow them
4X0eJ TIL that the world's oldest postcard called "Penny Penates" was intended as a practical joke on post office clerks.
EW0p TIL that workers at Nashville airport handled a cellist’s case so roughly they managed to break both the case and the cello inside it. The airline called it a ‘baggage handling irregularity’
X6QQ TIL following the release of Fifty Shades of Grey, rope sales in hardware stores skyrocketed.
eXWD TIL Hawaiian Airlines lets you travel with a 10lbs box of Pineapples or Papaya for free on any flight leaving Hawaii.