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TIL Alone on Mars, the Curiosity Rover sings itself Happy Birthday every year on August 5th.

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5VrW9 TIL that a paper ball thrown by a fan is displayed in the museum of German football club Werder Bremen. The ball helped Werder Bremen to reach the final of the UEFA Cup in 2009, after it interfered with a backpass by the oppositian, which led to Bremen to score the winning goal in the semi-final
69elX TIL: In 2015, a team of Italian scientists at the University of Trento made spiders produce stronger webs by spraying them with water infused with nanotubes and graphene. These super spider webs were stronger than Kevlar.
OG5wX TIL Indian yellow pigment is claimed to have been originally manufactured in rural India from the urine of cattle fed only on mango leaves and water.
Qr0d TIL citizens in Estonia are given an ID card that includes a public/private key pair allowing users to cryptographically sign digital documents
0QB1 TIL that a sunburn isn’t skin cells being damaged and dying, it’s the skin cell DNA being damaged and then committing suicide to prevent cancers from growing, in a process called UVB-induced Apoptosis.