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TIL the moon is not grey, rather it has a colorful surface ranging in shades from red to blue

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GYA97 TIL that the Polish government wrote a White Book with proof of the mass extermination of jews in german occupied Poland and gave it to the United Nations on December 10th, 1942.
Wk65X TIL pre-dissolution Soviet comedians had to have all their jokes approved by the Department of Humor. Jokes about politics, religion, and sex were banned, which left mostly jokes about animals.
1aYwX TIL about the Faint young Sun paradox that in Earths early history the energy output of the Sun was only 70% of what it is today, yet earth had liquid water and a climate hospitable to the formation of life, rather than the frozen environment that it should be with the Sun's reduced energy.
KOMxB TIL Mike Tyson offered a zoo attendant $10,000 to let him fight a gorilla
NXxMQ TIL about a rare trait called snatiation (sneezing + satiation). This trait is characterized by uncontrollable sneezing after eating a meal to fullness.