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TIL the length of a day on Mars has been known (within 3 minutes accuracy) since 1666 but the length of a day on Saturn was a mystery until 2019.

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b9adj TIL Roman Polanski wanted to film a violent and nihilistic version of Macbeth in response to his wife and unborn child's murder. No studio would finance it given the parallels with his own life. But Hugh Hefner financed the movie. He had been partying with a Playboy Exec on the night of the murders.
m4dy TIL that until WWII, almost everyone who rented an apartment in New York city had to move on the same day every year
lo6bN TIL that only five nations have the capability to launch a missile to any place on earth, and they happen to be the exact same five countries that are designated as permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (United States, China, France, Russia, Britain).
jBYj TIL prior to WWII a Viennese psychiatrist organized a special counseling program which for the first time in years lead to zero student suicides. Later imprisoned in Nazi camps, his family murdered, he wrote in secret a book about the meaning of life which became a bestseller after his liberation
OMbL TIL The same ladder has been near a window in Jerusalem for over 200 years.