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TIL the name of the shoe brand Asics is an acronym for a latin phrase meaning "a sound mind, in a sound body"

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o0pr TIL that astronomers and geologists have discovered evidence that Mars once experienced massive tsunamis, some of which had waves over 400-feet-tall.
XENME TIL of a "body farm", where the decomposition of human corpses is studied by leaving bodies outside in a variety of topographic and climate conditions. There are facilities in US, Canada, Australia, India, and UK. Over 100 bodies are donated to the University of Tennessee facility alone every year.
KK6 TIL Nikola Tesla believed he invented a death ray that caused the Tunguska explosion.
JYepB TIL 193km of the Suez Canal was dug partly by hand starting in 1859. Over the span of 10 years, around 1 million took part in the digging and it cost the lives of over 100 thousand Egyptian forced laborers.
r0B0 TIL that in 1975, North Korean embassy staff in Australia crashed their Mercedes, and when they went to the nearest house for help they were aghast to find that that they had knocked on the door of the South Korean ambassador’s residence.