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TIL there is a hypothesis that life originated on Mars and was transported to Earth on meteorites

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DQaJe TIL in the 1936 Olympics in Germany, Finnish cross-country skier Kalle Jalkanen spat out his dentures during the last leg of 4x10 km relay, returned to pick them up and went on to finish the race in first place
Oox86 TIL that King of Hearts is the only one without a moustache
D9mj TIL of Kevin Mitnick, a hacker believed to be so dangerous that he was placed in solitary confinement for fear of being able to “start a thermonuclear war by whistling into a payphone.”
9YZgr TIL that Homework was considered hugely controversial in the 1800s and early 1900s, when physicians crusaded against it, in 1901, California even banned homework for anyone under the age of 15
neY8o TIL That a study on drinking alcohol found that the amount of shrinkage in the hippocampus — the brain area associated with memory and reasoning — was related to the amount people drank. Those who had four or more drinks a day had almost six times the risk of hippocampal shrinkage as did nondrinkers