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TIL That the 2020 NASA Mars Rover will be able to send actual video of Mars back for the first time

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LkoGm TIL: The White Mulberry tree flings its pollen at over half the speed of sound through stored elastic force within its anthers.
rN4Gy TIL The Praetorian Guard assassinated thirteen Roman emperors. "An astonishing rate of murders for a unit whose sole purpose was the protection of the emperor."
WknYN TIL During WW II the US Army was aware that mail to soldiers was critical for morale, but overwhelmed with the volume and space it took to ship. So the resuscitated a British/Eastman Kodak method where every letter was photographed, and the film was shipped, then printed. It was called V Mail.
DQE5g TIL in 1963 Marco Ruiz became the only baseball pitcher to both win AND lose the same game. This happened when he started pitching a game that ended up being postponed. He was traded to the opposing team and was the last pitcher when the game resumed at a later date.
RmO8 TIL: The U.S. Federal tax code has 74,608 pages (187 times longer than it was a century ago)