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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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gMPYb TIL If anyone in a bonobo group, male or female, is feeling stressed, anxious, or irritated, someone will run over and give them a ‘bonobo handshake’ also known as social sexual contact.
Nkg6 TIL of a thousand year old rosebush in Hildesheim Germany. It even survived world war two, despite being bombed by the allies.
78JBL TIL glass sponge could live as long as 15,000 years. Meaning oldest living glass sponges were around before human built any permanent structure on Earth
EYO0 TIL if you turned the Rubik’s cube once every second it would take you 1400 trillion years to go through all the configurations. If you had started this project during the Big Bang, you still wouldn’t be done yet.
aw44N TIL Great white sharks do not survive in captivity due to depression and refusing to be fed by humans, leading them to die of starvation. There are currently many theories on why this is. The current record for a Great White in captivity is only 44 days.