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TIL that if you were to stand at the top of the Olympus Mons on Mars, the tallest planetary mountain in the solar system, you would not be able to tell you were on a mountain due to the shallow slope in the mountain extending further than the horizon line, which is a mere three kilometers away.

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Pa4e TIL that “WKRP in Cincinnati” recorded on videotape rather than film because it made the music licensing rights cheaper
R7nAw TIL Dr. Dolittle, the star of a series of lighthearted children's books about a guy who could talk to animals, was dreamt up by Hugh Lofting while in the gruesome carnage of the trenches of World War I, as a distraction, in letters to his children.
dDZV7 TIL that production of North American Coral Snake anti-venom stopped in 2006, with existing stocks expiring in 2008. The FDA had approved the use of remaining supplies through 2019.
ZkpG TIL that the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous wanted to include the use of LSD in the 12-step program, saying that it helped the user find “a power greater than ourselves” that “could restore us to sanity”
b9AVZ TIL in 1998, a 10-year-old girl in Austria was dragged into a car and kidnapped. The case remained unsolved until she knocked on someone's door in 2006 saying: "I am Natascha Kampusch." She had just escaped the secret cellar of a local technician that abused her for 8 years.