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TIL that NASA will land Perseverance Rover on MARS using Sky Crane Technology, the same technology used in landing Curiosity Rover.

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4XVOJ TIL more than 30 countries sell citizenship or residence permits for cash. In Thailand, the cost is $10,000, while fast-track residence in the UK requires $10m.
l7GmB TIL “Jingle Bells” was originally written to be a Thanksgiving song.
5YJJp TIL that a group of embittered singles reserved all the odd-numbered seats at a cinema's primetime screening on Valentine's Day so that couples would be forced to sit apart
xVNPD TIL: In 1982, Daniel Shechtman discovered a new type of crystal called a quasicrystal. The scientific community mocked him. A colleague told him to read a textbook on crystallography and he was later fired for continuing his research. In 2011, Shechtman won the Nobel prize for this discovery.
OG9L6 TIL: Human breast milk is kosher according to Jewish doctrine