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TIL an election team in India travels over 35km to collect a vote from a single voter in the region.

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XbPr TIL that David Bowie’s first TV appearance was in 1964 at the age of 17, but was not for his music; he was interviewed on the BBC’s Tonight show as the founder of ‘The Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to Long-Haired Men’.
nepQW TIL Loki was actively pansexual and genderfluid in mythology Loki | Mythology, Powers, & Facts.
lo8Y7 TIL that the Mask of Warka, the oldest discovered accurate depiction of a human face (3100 BC), disappeared from the National Museum of Iraq after the 2003 US invasion. A US military mission to recover lost artifacts found the mask, undamaged, buried in a farmer's backyard.
x6Pk1 TIL that NASA engineers designed a make up kit because they thought female astronauts would want make up in space
LQV5p TIL the Drake Equation is a scientific formula to estimate how many intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations within our galaxy are within radio communications range of Earth. Formulated in 1961, the original estimate was a minimum of 20.