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TIL Neil Degrasse Tyson has said that if China leaked a memo that they were building military bases on Mars, the U.S. would be there in 10 months.

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R7Xm1 TIL since Queen Elizabeth I didn't rule over Scotland, Scottish people protested against the title of Queen Elizabeth II by vandalising post boxes
5Vo5P TIL scientists didn’t use real blood to test absorbency of menstrual products, such as pads, until 2023. Up until then, a saline solution was the default method.
Wbrd TIL the Greek religion’s God (Zeus Pater), the Roman religion’s God (Jupiter), and the Indian Vedic religion’s God (Dyaus Pita), have similar names because those religions - along with Norse, Persian, and Slavic mythologies - all evolved from the same original religion.
5Yvj9 TIL that when 10 Downing Street was restored in the 1960s, it was found that its iconic black bricks were actually yellow, and had been stained black by two centuries of urban smog
oVGo TIL of the ‘Japanese Smoking Paradox’ where Japanese smokers smoke more than US/European males but have much lower lung cancer rates and nobody is entirely sure why.