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TIL many versions of The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby are headed by the Vonnegut quote "Verdict: Excellent book by a genius". However, these editions remove the last words of the quote, which is "Excellent book by a genius who will do anything to get attention".

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nYA9 TIL that Michel Siffre, a French scientist, contributed to the understanding of the endogenous biological clock, also called circadian clock, by staying two months cloistered in the abyss of Scarasson without time cues on a glacier from July 1962.
9wv7r TIL there's a real robotics company called Cyberdine and one of its robotic exeoskeleton suit is named HAL.
J1bb4 TIL about the Law of Triviality (aka bike-shedding) where the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum [of the money] involved.
7rEw7 TIL a Conservative politician hanged himself while wearing women's underwear. He also had a garbage bag over his head and an orange segment in his mouth.
N7XB6 When you have an entire planet to explore, how do you decide where to land the rover? There’s no wrong place to start, according to planetary geologist Bethany Ehlmann. Anywhere on the planet, there's always something new to learn from a rover expedition.