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TIL Sunsets on Mars are blue.

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Al54 TIL in 1986 an actual ‘cloud of death’ swept through an area of Cameroon, suddenly asphyxiating everything in its path, including 4 villages, 1,700 people and 3,500 livestock
d8Zjd TIL King Gillette, who founded Gillette razors, believed that everyone in the US should live in a giant city called Metropolis powered by Niagara Falls.
b6PM7 TIL 30 years ago, Keanu Reeves turned down a $6M offer to star in the movie Heat to perform Hamlet on stage in Winnipeg, Manitoba for $1000 a week
oRVm7 TIL an Australian drugs-related jury trial costing over A$ 1 million with 105 witnesses was aborted when it was discovered that four or five of the twelve jurors had been playing Sudoku instead of listening to the evidence for most of the trial.
Zpyjo TIL that for six generations, from 1688 to 1840, members of the Sanson family were the executioners in Paris. Charles-Henri Sanson performed 2,918 executions, including that of Louis XVI, and his son Henri executed Marie-Antoinette.