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TIL NASA seriously considered an all-mechanical rover to explore Venus. Powered by wind and controlled using clockwork and mechanical computers, it would communicate with Earth using reflectors or phonograph records launched on balloons

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XENx6 TIL that in the USSR, when foreign music was banned, bootleg records were made on old x-rays pulled from medical trash. These were called "ribs" and "bone records".
5VVBR TIL Maya Angelou was a sex worker in her early adult life
EjRW TIL that Bubbles the Chimp (who once was famously Michael Jackson’s pet) is alive and well, living in a Florida sanctuary for retired apes - and that he HATES cameras these days
RWMw TIL of the great filter theory. Which suggests the reason we can’t find advanced civilizations in our galaxy. Is because there is some factor or process preventing them from arising or prospering.
yvnw TIL That fake chicken eggs are becoming a problem in Chinas marketplace. Made to look like the real thing from a mixture of resin, coagulant and starch complete with pigment for colour as well as a counterfeit shell.