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TIL the whole Mars is as cold as the South Pole.

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yjDl TIL Wild Elephants Live Up to an Average of 39 Years Longer Than Their Zoo Counterparts
8X58 TIL that people estimate NASA’s budget to be 24% of the national budget, on average. It’s currently only ~0.48%.
oBVxY TIL Tigers cannot purr. To show happiness, tigers squint or close their eyes. This is because losing vision lowers defense, so tigers only purposefully do so when they feel comfortable and safe
XEX0R TIL that Magda and Joseph Goebbels in the last days of WWII and while confined to the Führerbunker, arranged to have all 6 of their children killed with cyanide as they slept. They believed the children would support their decision to commit suicide if they were old enough to speak for themselves.
OGVN6 TIL from 1916 to 1917, Felix von Luckner of Imperial Germany led the SMS Seeadler, a sailing ship, to attack Allied merchant ships