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TIL that the Viking 1 lander explored Mars for six years until human error during a software update caused its antenna to go down, terminating communication.

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ZDoD TIL that a Freedom of Information request by Uk’s The Sunday Times newspaper in 2012 revealed that Blair’s government considered knighting Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad.
MeZvW TIL that J. Robert Oppenheimer, inventor of the atomic bomb, tried to poison his tutor in college using an apple doused with toxic chemicals
R7Eg4 TIL The Great White Shark has the ability to evert their stomachs. It is their version of throwing up by pushing their stomachs out through their mouths. Sharks do it when they need to get something out of their stomach that they can’t digest, like hard bone or a license plate.
pyEb TIL that Santa’s canadian postal code is H0H 0H0. You can write a letter to Sana in any language and get a letter back.
8l5X TIL: Writer/Director Bob Clark refused to make a sequel to Porky’s unless the studio agreed to let him make a vanity project “A Christmas Story” with a budget of only $4,000,000.