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TIL Brian O'Leary wrote his Ph.D. thesis on the physical properties of the Martian surface and was selected as a scientist-astronaut by NASA in 1967 for a potential manned Mars mission when it was still in NASA's program plan

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epyNb TIL that macadam road is named after its inventor John Loudon McAdam.
NVwN TIL Legend by Bob Marley has been on the album chart for over 914 weeks and currently sits at 69
awygo TIL a goat that was sold to be slaughtered for an Indian restaurant in Alaska escaped from the owners and a goat chase ensued around town. The goat became famously known by the name Curry and people would post photos anytime they spotted him. He was eventually caught and became a mascot.
yAxX TIL that 1 in 4 Americans are unaware that the Earth orbits the Sun
Men9b TIL 16th century English writers added silent letters to many words to better link them to Greek or Latin, even if no such link existed, such as the b in debt or s in island