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TIL that researchers are practicing for a human mission to Mars by living in the heart of Antarctica to see the effects of extreme isolation.

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XEeRQ TIL Daniel Day-Lewis, on receiving his 2008 Oscar presented by Helen Mirren (who won an Oscar for playing the Queen,) said "That's the closest I'll come to ever getting a knighthood." He was knighted 6 years later.
loa9r TIL more than 50% of Earth is unmapped
7dMO TIL religious belief in America has hit an all time low. Prayer rates have decreased fivefold since the early 1980s and many Americans think the bible is is an “ancient book of fables, legends, history, and moral precepts recorded by men”
5no9 TIL that film scores were invented not for artistic reasons, but to drown out the sound of the projector
OoQV1 TIL that Camel milk is the closest you can get to a human mother’s milk and it doesn’t contain beta-lactoglobin - the protein, found in cow’s milk that causes allergic reactions