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TIL life on Earth may have originated on Mars. NASA’s latest studies show that microbes on Mars may have come to Earth on a meteorite.

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Ooov1 TIL lebanese-american voice actor Casey Kasem, best know as Shaggy from Scooby-Doo, left the Transformers cartoon after they introduced a somewhat offensive character named 'Abdul Fakkadi' who was ruler of a country called 'Carbombia'.
Lkaxr TIL Hans Zimmer wanted to use a pipe organ while making the Interstellar soundtrack because it only makes a note with air, making you feel human presence in every sound. Which was very important to keeping the film about not just the space that they were looking at but the people within that space.
6E7dl TIL Geoffrey Chaucer’s contemporary use of lower-class Saxon English to write his works. rather than conventional Latin or upper class spoken French, has perplexed scholars for centuries. He was the first to truly begin to develop English into a highly flexible literary language.
NXdAJ TIL of the discovery of chemotherapy. During WWII it was discovered that mustard gas reduced white blood cell counts. In the 1940s, two pharmacologists examined the effects of mustard gas in treating lymphoma in mice. They then treated a patient with nonHodgkin's lymphoma with the chemical agent.
kOeMe TIL scientists proposed a “Minimal Turing Test” where you get to use only one word to convince others you are human, and not a machine. The single word that people found most likely to distinguish a human from a machine based on a new study was the word “poop”.