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TIL: Swordfish can heat up their eyes in order to hunt better

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VZLB 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.
W7ox8 TIL: Staufen, Germany, a picturesque town with buildings dating to the 16th century, is literally being destroyed by a failed attempt to harness geothermal energy.
dpYd TIL of Thomas(ine) Hall– a hermaphrodite in Colonial America. A trial was held where it was ruled (s)he was both “a man and a woeman”, and, to conform to the strict gender roles of the time, (s)he was order to wear, at all times, a man’s shirt and pants with a woman’s apron and bonnet.
6EoQX TIL Baroque composers Handel and Bach were born 26 days apart and lived 70 miles away from each other but had never met
7roMO TIL There are at least 7 "Frozen Conflict" zones in the former soviet union, which are unrecognized states created during the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1992. Although over 6 million people live in these areas, these countries have no official status and are not member of the UN