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TIL - NASA's Mars team used the term milli-pirate-ninjas to indicate watt hours generated per sol, as an homage to Watney's invention in The Martian.

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oRmO7 TIL US Space Force members are called 'Guardians' and they are organized into 'Deltas'
09AN TIL if an “hourglass” measures any time other than an hour, it is actually called a “clepsammia.”
oePY TIL Kelsey Grammer’s Dad was murdered; his little sister was kidnapped, raped, and murdered by Freddie Glen; both his twin half-brothers died in a scuba diving accident; and his best friend was killed in 9/11
RnDQ TIL A star called Betelgeuse will supernova “soon” and becomes Earths second sun for 2 weeks
jn9v TIL in 1951 a researcher discovered something never seen before. Cells from a woman named Henrietta Lacks could be kept alive and grown. 20 tons of her cells have been grown to date.