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TIL There are weekly weather reports for Mars.

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BgBAx TIL that in Bali, there is law dictating that buildings (except in certain scenarios) cannot be taller than a coconut tree or 15m.
E55w TIL after a hijacked Ethiopian Air jet crashed in the ocean, an estimated 60-80 people who survived the initial water-crash ignored the captains pleas to not inflate the life vests inside the plane. They all drowned when rushing water pinned their inflated vests against the fuselage’s ceiling.
4XZER TIL: Tess than 75 years after the discovery of gold in 1848, almost every grizzly bear in California had been tracked down and killed. ... Two years later in 1924, what was thought to be a grizzly was spotted in Sequoia National Park for the last time and thereafter, grizzlies were never seen again
kOp94 TIL of the Lake Nyos Disaster in Camaroon. A limnic eruption (dissolved carbon dioxide suddenly erupts from deep lake waters) killed over 1,700 people.
4kgxa TIL Maria Rasputin (the daughter of Grigori Rasputin, the infamous mystic and close friend of Russia's last czar) immigrated to the U.S. and joined the cirus as a lion tamer.