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TIL that the Curiosity rover, currently on Mars, is 10 feet long and 7 feet tall, "about the size of a small SUV."

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gMgPW TIL pope Benedict IX is the only person who has been pope on more than one occasion. He was notorious for selling the papacy and reclaiming the office afterwards twice, making him pope three times in 1032 to 1044, from April to May 1045 and from 1047 to 1048.
9YAxX TIL that there is monument in Ireland called Newgrange, built in 3200 before Christ, constructed in a way that the sun lights shine in the inside only one day in a year (the winter solstice day)!
oRZmE TIL that beavers have iron teeth - literally.
XEd7X TIL of an experimental treatment for tinnitus: bimodal neuromodulation, electrical stimulation of the tongue paired with sounds. Pairing zaps with sounds seems to rewire brain circuits connected with tinnitus. The theory is to make an auditory system more hyperactive to everything but the tinnitus.
5YERk TIL that Scajaquada Creek, a waterway in Western New York, runs through a six mile long tunnel beneath the city of Buffalo, NY