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TIL mountains on Saturn’s moon Titan are named after mountains in Middle-Earth

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X0ppP TIL the Mechanical Turk was a chess playing machine from 1770 that seemed to be able to compete against a human chess player like artificial intelligence. Except that it simply hid another human player within itself.
8AJL TIL that many incredients in lip balms – phenol, camphor, eucalyptus, menthol, peppermint and spearmint – are skin irritants or drying agents, which provide short term relief but end up making your lips worse in the long run, thus encouraging you to use more lip balm.
x68e7 TIL Whitney Houston's National Anthem for SB XXV, Which is Considered Among the Best Renditions Ever...was Lip-synched.
dKgK TIL goats scream just like humans (yes, exactly like in the Doritos super bowl commercial).
7AJx TIL That when Fredric J. Baur, the inventor of the Pringles can, died, he was cremated and buried in a Pringles can, as per his wishes.