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TIL there’s a team of NASA scientists who’ve been pretending they’re on Mars for nearly a year. They live and work in a dome on the side of a Hawaiian volcano and only go out in spacesuits.

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Z84Q4 TIL about Monica Seles who became the youngest-ever French Open singles Champion at the age of 16 years, 6 months in 1991 and a further 7 Grand Slams till 1993 when a fan invaded the pitch and stabbed her, she never really recover from the psychological setback.
bW84 TIL McDonald’s in 2008 saved $278,850,000 by removing one of the two slices of cheese from the McDouble/Double cheeseburger.
vPVK8 TIL that after a farm accident the dying farmer scratched his last will and testament onto a tractor fender, the tractor he was pinned under, and that fender was removed and submitted to the courts and ultimately found to be a valid will.
6EpJ7 TIL that in 2014 Korean Air vice president Heather Cho was so angry about receiving macadamia nuts in a bag instead of on a plate, she forced the plane to taxi back to gate and unload the offending flight attendant. "Nutgate" ended up costing her 5 months in jail
l6G7 TIL that plastics don’t dry in the dishwasher because they don’t have enough mass to get hot enough to evaporate water during the drying cycle, like glass and ceramics do.