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TIL The Curiosity rover has Morse code embedded into the tread on its wheels.

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Z8xgQ TIL Keanu Reeves turned down $11 million to do Speed 2 and instead toured with his band and took the title role in a 1995 Manitoba Theatre Centre production of Hamlet in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Xp9j TIL that Ukraine in 1994 gave up its nuclear weapons to Russia and in return Russia (together with US and UK) agreed to respect Ukrainian independence and sovereignty within her borders (among other things)
4LVR TIL MC Hammer spent $30 million on a mansion in the hills above Oakland. When he went bankrupt he sold it for $6.8 million.
OGLXg Today I learned that in 1962 a man bought a deserted island in the Seychelles and planted 16000 trees, reintroduced 120 giant turtles and hundreds of birds turning the island into a protected national park
RdAQ TIL of Albert Battel, a German officer serving in the Wehrmacht during WWII, who commanded his whole unit to protect Jews and threatened the SS to kill them if they crossed a bridge into a Jewish ghetto to round them up.