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

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GYND7 TIL that the desert planet of Tatootine in Star Wars was originally meant to be a jungle planet. One of the producers found sites in the Philippines, but thought director George Lucas would be "itchy" from all of the filming in the jungle, so Lucas decided to make Tatootine a desert planet.
vPmRr TIL that Tyrannosaurus tore the head off of Triceratops to get to the neck meat.
oRNKL TIL that the actor Ken Curtis, famous for playing the crotchety deputy Festus on the TV show Gunsmoke, started his career playing clarinet in Tommy Dorsey's band and took over as singer when Frank Sinatra left the band.
8axd8 TIL that a cow kicked open the door on a 2-story trailer and jumped out on the way to the slaughterhouse in order to give birth to her baby girl
Bg6pr TIL that there is a single group of indigenous people, the Yupik, who lived in both the Americas and Eurasia (Russia) prior to European discovery of the new world.