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TIL that Uranus smells like farts because its atmosphere consists largely of hydorgen sulfide.

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Y7gXW TIL about Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night (or Op PX). It was a biological attacked plan by the Imperial Japanese Navy to use seaplanes to deliver weaponized Bubonic Plague to the Western Coast of United States. The plan was abandoned and briefly reconsidered after the Japanese surrender to US.
m1Kno TIL Before the asteroid impact hypothesis was firmly established in 1977, the proposed explanations as to why dinosaurs went extinct included theories such as "The T rex ate all the eggs of the last generation of dinosaurs" and "their brain shrunk until they became too stupid to live"
woPNE TIL that Times New Roman was commissioned by a British newspaper called The Times.
yj9w TIL That as the idea of temperance began to pick up in the United States in the 1800s, children were taught in school that alcohol could cause spontaneous combustion. “A schoolbook for children told the story of a man who was so full of alcohol that he exploded while attempting to light his pipe”
9PbX TIL to clear the streets for President Kennedy’s Inauguration the army used flamethrowers to melt the snow.