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Microbial life in Chile’s Atacama Desert bursts into bloom when moisture is available.

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W7geN TIL: The first (domestic) bread-making appliance was invented & released in Japan in 1986 by Matsushita
mwXv TIL Taser is an acronym for “Thomas A. Swift’s electric rifle”
rRK5M TIL Humans don't have strong olfactory skills and kissing allows you to smell and taste a person and see if you have different immune responses as we tend to feel more attracted to someone with a different immune response
bVrj TIL 450 years ago King Charles V of Spain commissioned a mechanical monk, an automaton, to be made as thanks to God for saving his son. This is one of the first robots made by humans. It still works to this day