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TIL On Mars instead of snowing frozen water like on earth…. it snows DRY ICE

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LkOOP TIL The day after John Lennon was murdered David Bowie was appearing in the play The Elephant Man. Chapman had a front-row ticket to play that night. John and Yoko were supposed to sit front for that show too. So the night after John was killed there were three empty seats in the front row.
aw8By It might surprise you that some of the world’s deadliest animals save millions of human lives—one day they might even save yours. In this week’s Today I Learned, National Geographic Emerging Explorer Zoltan Takacs reveals how venomous creatures could be the future of pharmacology.
E10dd TIL the word for loving the smell of old books is Bibliosmia and that scientists can analyse the chemicals responsible for the old book smell to determine the books age.
60wl TIL an island, located between Australia and New Caledonia, was charted on maps for over a century until a crew of scientists sailed to the location and found it didn’t exist.
KOG6G TIL The American flag was designed by a high school student !