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TIL about Iapetus, one of Saturn's moons that has a 12m (20km) high ridge of mountains running almost perfectly along the entire equator, dividing the moon into a bright side and a dark side

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LP9 TIL George Lucas stated Yoda is “actually the illegitimate child of Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy.”
6EYkw TIL about Thomas Norris, a Navy SEAL who was awarded the Medal of Honor for rescuing two pilots during the Vietnam war. On a subsequent mission he was shot in the head and left for dead, but fellow SEAL Michael Thornton dragged him to a boat offshore and saved him. Thornton won the Medal of Honor.
RO98 TIL that a billionaire announced he would bury a $500,000 Bentley for the afterlife “just as pharaohs did with possessions”. After criticism, he revealed that it was a stunt. People bury more valuable things – “what’s absurd is burying your organs, which can save you many lives.” Be an organ donor.
6jGW TIL the sale of alcohol is forbidden on election days in Norway to prevent VUI (voting under the influence)
neyZo TIL Altoids tins (The mint containers) are used as makeshift casings for custom electronics. Texas Instruments even makes a open source computer board called BeagleBoard with rounded corners to more easily fit into an Altoids tin.