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TIL Elijah Wood was 18 when he started filming as Frodo

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9aEQ TIL that NASA has special wristwatches that keep Mars time for employees working with the rovers
wLpoJ TIL that CBS crime drama "Cold Case" takes place in the same fictional universe as the CSI franchise and "Without a Trace".
nRrW TIL hay bales that are too wet have a higher chance of spontaneously combusting, and “excessive moisture is the most common cause of hay fires.”
neDNo TIL Alice Coachmen was the first black woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal at the 1948 Summer Olympic Games in the high jump competition. She was also the first African-American woman selected to the US Olympic Team.
wl9P TIL astronaut Chris Hadfield once described problem-solving in NASA as “methodically looking for a solution until you run out of oxygen”