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TIL the sky on Mars is red and its sunsets are blue, exactly the opposite of Earth's.

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kJA8m TIL that in 2019, Lachlan Murdoch bought the ‘Chartwell Estate’ for approximately 150 million dollars. The Los Angeles based home served as the exterior shots for the mansion used by the Clampetts on the 1960s tv series ‘The Beverly Hillbillies’.
WkjQA TIL about TON 618 which is a very distant and extremely luminous quasar that is 10 Billion light years away. It contains the most massive known black hole that has a mass which is heavier than 66 Billion Suns.
ADJwo TIL The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson once got an F on an assignment in his high school music class—which eventually turned into “Surfin’”, their first single. The F was changed to an A in 2018.
J1b48 TIL in 2012 as a man was cleaning out his great-aunt's home after she died, he found 345 well-preserved comic books in a closet, including Detective Comics No. 27 (first appearance of Batman), Action Comics No. 1 (first appearance of Superman) & Batman No. 1. In total. the collection sold for $3.5m.
x4x1 TIL a man with a Liverpool FC tattoo with the club motto “You’ll Never Walk Alone” had his lower leg amputated after an injury in Afghanistan. The surgeon unknowingly cut the tattoo so it read “You’ll Never Walk”.