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TIL We Already Have Martian Rocks (Probably)

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rR0No TIL that the longest single "conflict" was the Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years War, allegedly between the Netherlands and the Isle of Scilly, extended by a lack of a peace treaty for 335 years, without a shot ever being fired.
lEBr TIL a King size bed is actually 4 inches wider than a California King. The latter is 4 inches longer.
Bgb0L TIL about Gil Cisneros, a congressman from California who began his political career in 2018. He first gained national attention in 2010 by winning a $266 million lottery weeks after being laid off from his job and using that money to establish scholarships for Latino students.
GYM11 Today I learned David Klavins made a vertical grand piano standing 14 feet and 9 inches.
JYrV4 TIL about a tombstone mentality which is an attitude, in aviation air safety, of ignoring design defects until people have died because of them.