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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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rRdky TIL In medieval times, all fruit and vegetables were cooked as it was believed that raw fruit and vegetables caused disease. One book from 1500 even warns: “Beware of green salads and raw fruits, for they will make your master sick”.
6ErQ TIL That in 1909, you could fake-murder your friends in a wax bullet duel. It was even an Olympic event.
nWBZW TIL There is a municipality in Brazil called Altamira whose total area is twice the size of the whole of Austria and four times the size of Switzerland
ANJlo TIL scientific estimates of human population that Earth can support indefinitely range from 2 billion to 1 trillion
Rw5a TIL that the name Cerberus, Hades’ the three-headed dog that guards the underworld, is derived from the Greek word Kerberos which means spotted. Meaning Hades named is his guard dog “spot”