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TIL Earthquakes on Mars are called Marsquakes.

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16V0O TIL Kurt Godel, famous for his incompleteness theorems, was terrified of being poisoned, and would only eat food prepared by his wife Adele. He died of malnutrition shortly after she was hospitalized.
xVQMk TIL: Every year the Alpine Swift spends over 200 days in a row, in the air, without landing. How the birds are physiologically able to do it is still a mystery to scientists.
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