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TIL the Aurora is taller than 250 Burj Khalifas

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d8xLr TIL actors Peter Sellers and Britt Ekland got married only 10 days after first meeting. 6 weeks later on location filming ‘Kiss Me, Stupid,’ Sellers inhaled poppers before sex with Ekland in search of “the ultimate orgasm” and suffered 8 heart attacks in 3 hours, forcing withdrawal from the film.
L7QV TIL of Superman: Red Son, an alternate universe where Superman landed in the Soviet Union instead of America. He is described as a “Champion of the common worker who fights a never-ending battle for Stalin”
nW0o9 TIL Princess Haya bint Hussein won circa £550m in a divorce settlement against Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, during the proceedings the court found he had previously kidnapped two of his daughters, that he installed bugging software on lawyers phones and he was a threat risk to his ex wife.
19or TIL in 2014 two undercover cops working independently of each other tried to bust each other in a sting operation without realizing who the other was.
4G5w TIL: after opening the tomb of Casimir IV of Lithuania and Poland in 1973, 4 of the 12 present died within a few days, and 6 more soon afterwards